E-Scribe News : a programmer’s blog

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. 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

I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. 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.

Pile o'Tags

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Stuff I Use

Akismet, bitbucket, del.icio.us, Django, Emacs, FreeBSD, Git, jQuery, LaunchBar, Markdown, Mercurial, OS X, Postfix, Python, Review Board, S3, SQLite, TextMate, Ubuntu Linux

Spam Report

At least 96059 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

9 posts tagged "ruby"

The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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OSCON 2007, Day 2 addendum: FOSCON
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
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Best OSCON 2006 -- er, 2005 -- photo
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
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Ubuntu, I buntu, we all buntu
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
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A Ruby happening
Thursday, August 4th, 2005
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FOSCON
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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CodeZoo
Wednesday, August 3rd, 2005
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Railing
Monday, August 1st, 2005
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