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About Me

PBX 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.

Book

Python Web Development with Django 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.

Colophon

Built using Django, served by Apache and mod_wsgi. The database is SQLite. The operating system is FreeBSD, on a VPS hosted at Johncompanies.com. Comment-spam protection by Akismet. Vintage topo imagery from the Maptech archive. The markup engine is Markdown.

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, del.icio.us, Django, dpaste.com, Emacs, FreeBSD, Freenode, jQuery, LaunchBar, MacPorts, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, SQLite, Subversion, TextMate, Trac, Ubuntu Linux, wmii

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At least 67581 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

17 posts tagged "rails"

Rails security hole hullabaloo
Thursday, August 10th, 2006
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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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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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