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.
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.
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.
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
Copyright 2008
by Paul Bissex
and E-Scribe New Media
Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
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Interview with TextMate creator Allan Oddgaard
Sunday, January 28th, 2007
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TextMate command for paste.e-scribe.com
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006
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Joel on TextMate
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
blogs
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TextMate update
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
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Sparkle: automatic application updates
Saturday, February 11th, 2006
open source
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Logo bundle for TextMate
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
programming
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Textmate 1.5 released
Friday, January 6th, 2006
os x
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A software manual written using Markdown
Saturday, December 17th, 2005
markdown
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Django template bundle for TextMate
Monday, November 28th, 2005
django
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Obscure "svn mv" problem solved
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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3 comments
TextMate: Bundles of goodness
Friday, November 11th, 2005
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6 comments
PHP/HTML enhancements for TextMate
Thursday, November 10th, 2005
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TextMate: wiki bits
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Python one-liner of the day
7 comments
How not to advocate via Google Code
2 comments
99 problems
3 comments
The original Lego Star Wars
2 comments
Toolbot.com source code available on request
Simon Griffee
Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
3 days ago
Jason Calleiro
From PHP to Python
4 days ago
Yuli
dpaste.com
7 days ago
bruce
Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
David Reynolds
The original Lego Star Wars
19 days ago
Jason Davies
Python one-liner of the day
21 days ago
Paddy3118
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
21 days ago
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