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About Me

PBX My name is Paul Bissex, and e-scribe.com is my consulting business. I build web applications using as much open source software as possible. From September to June I teach web design and other important non-photographic professional skills to photographers. In the '90s I wrote technology commentary and reviews for magazines, newspapers, and web publications, including Wired, Salon.com, FamilyPC, the late lamented Web Review, and the Chicago Tribune. Feel free to email me.

Book Project

I'm co-authoring a book, "Python Web Development with Django", with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun. It will be published by Prentice Hall in July 2008, but is available for pre-ordering on Amazon now.

Colophon

This site is built on a fresh trunk checkout of Django, running on Python 2.5.1, served by Apache and mod_python. 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.

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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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

22 posts tagged "rants"

The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Yegge's crusade
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
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Negroponte on not teaching Office
Saturday, January 6th, 2007
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STFU
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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Johnny can too code
Friday, September 15th, 2006
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SourceForge needs help
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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I hate those SitePal ads
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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QuickTime 0, Open Source 1
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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Why the python.org redesign is good
Tuesday, March 7th, 2006
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Linux will eat itself
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
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Digg vs. Reddit vs. Me
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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eBay, fraud, filtering, and Web 2.0
Friday, November 4th, 2005
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Taxonomy of Bubble 2.0
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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Death to QuickTime Pro
Friday, October 28th, 2005
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Product idea: Single-speaker iPod station
Sunday, October 23rd, 2005
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Blog Usability Showdown: Me vs. Jakob Nielsen
Wednesday, October 19th, 2005
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Is eBay doing all it can to fight phishing?
Friday, September 23rd, 2005
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Signal to Noise
Saturday, September 17th, 2005

Hizzitachi
Saturday, September 17th, 2005
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Try, try again
Monday, September 12th, 2005
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Mac troubleshooting tips + bonus rant
Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
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The support experience
Sunday, July 3rd, 2005
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