I'm Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using open source software, especially Django. I teach photographers web design and professional skills. In the '90s I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote technology commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon.com, Chicago Tribune, and lots of little places you've never heard of. Feel free to email me.
I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Its strong points include an introduction to Python, and better coverage of Django 1.0 than nearly anybody else. Published by Addison-Wesley, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well.
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Rails security hole hullabaloo
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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risks
Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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The Zend Framework
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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Ruby on Rails 1.0
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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Rails/Django lovefest in Chicago
Monday, December 5th, 2005
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web development
TrimPath Junction: a pure Javascript clone of Rails
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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The "mirage" of CMS generality
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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Locomotive: Rails for OS X
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Controller freaks
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Big Nerd Ruby Ranch
Tuesday, September 27th, 2005
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YAPWF: TurboGears
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
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Django progress
Friday, August 26th, 2005
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A List Apart 4.0
Thursday, August 25th, 2005
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Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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Railing
Monday, August 1st, 2005
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Everything on Rails
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Cake
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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Branching and merging in real life
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Summer Spam
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SPF-enabled spam domains
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Chess via iPod
2 comments
Aesthetics and computation
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Brett Spurrier
Software for determining image similarity?
24 days ago
nizamfarooq
eBay, fraud, filtering, and Web 2.0
60 days ago
Derek
World's ugliest Django app
91 days ago
sagar
Sort tables with sorttable.js
110 days ago
Paintball Kolbudy
Summer Spam
117 days ago
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