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. 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.

Pile o'Tags

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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

Spam Report

At least 67532 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

39 posts tagged "site"

Back in Action
Saturday, September 27th, 2008

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Toolbot.com source code available on request
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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Comment Spam Stats
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
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Make your own blog with Django in only 2.5 years
Sunday, January 6th, 2008
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I'm not spamming you
Friday, June 29th, 2007
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Twittered
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
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Protecting the server with mod_evasive
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
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Comment Spam
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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Library of 1000 scammy spams
Saturday, March 10th, 2007
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Good web hosting
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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Most boring upgrade ever
Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007
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dpaste.com update
Friday, December 29th, 2006
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Reverse game: Codegolf edition
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
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dpaste.com
Thursday, November 16th, 2006
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Blog flair backlash
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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TextMate command for paste.e-scribe.com
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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Pastebin update: Pygments
Friday, October 20th, 2006
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Spam stats redux
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
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Akismet anti-comment-spam
Wednesday, July 26th, 2006
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Moving the blog to Django
Monday, April 10th, 2006
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Baby steps with Ajax
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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"Reverse" game update -- my language safari
Friday, February 24th, 2006
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Site tweaks
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
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Well blogs
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
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Little updates
Thursday, January 19th, 2006

RSS tweaks
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
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New feature: "Related Posts"
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005

Mining Monday: A trip to 1995
Monday, November 14th, 2005

Mining Monday: embarrassing Google searches
Monday, October 31st, 2005
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Comments: Don't be shy
Friday, October 21st, 2005

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Mining Monday: Random Shakespeare
Monday, October 17th, 2005
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One-hundred-and-first p0st
Thursday, October 13th, 2005

Mining Monday: Ungreek
Monday, October 10th, 2005
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Markdown
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
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Mining Monday: the hardware collection
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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Mining Monday: link.toolbot.com
Monday, September 19th, 2005

Comment spam
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005
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Quiet Time
Friday, August 5th, 2005

Comments
Monday, August 1st, 2005

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