E-Scribe News : a programmer’s blog

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.

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

A Django site.
(Finally!)

Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media

38 posts tagged "site"

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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