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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.

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

35 posts tagged "tips"

From PHP to Python
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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Racebike building and software engineering
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
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Understanding tuples vs. lists in Python
Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
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Attachment-viewing script for mutt
Friday, May 11th, 2007
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Protecting the server with mod_evasive
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
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In-place import using Subversion
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
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Managing a Django project using darcs
Monday, March 12th, 2007
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Preparing for Y2K.007DST on FreeBSD
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
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An IRC-specific Django FAQ
Monday, February 19th, 2007
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Notes on my new Django setup
Sunday, October 29th, 2006
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If all else fails, force it
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006
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Handling legacy URLs with Django
Friday, September 29th, 2006
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Think twice before you let those domains lapse
Monday, September 25th, 2006
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A MAC address regex
Friday, September 8th, 2006
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Movin' on up
Saturday, July 15th, 2006
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Root, sweet root
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
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Offsite, online backup: rsync.net
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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Jumpcut is back
Monday, May 8th, 2006
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Trac spam
Saturday, May 6th, 2006
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Random crufty open source release of the day
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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More quick-not-dirty PHP
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
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The twenty-minute trouble ticket system
Friday, March 31st, 2006
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Django development tips
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
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Digg vs. Reddit vs. Me
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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Tim Bray: "No New XML Languages"
Tuesday, January 10th, 2006
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How to use vim, really
Monday, January 9th, 2006
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You really should learn regular expressions
Sunday, December 4th, 2005
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Quick, but not dirty, PHP
Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
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Beware of the "just"
Monday, November 21st, 2005
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Obscure "svn mv" problem solved
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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Form hijacking
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
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Anatomy of a BoingBoinging
Friday, October 28th, 2005
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Ctrl-T considered harmful
Tuesday, October 11th, 2005
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RealPlayer direct download
Saturday, October 8th, 2005

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Watching logs
Saturday, July 2nd, 2005
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