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 "tools"

Booktools
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
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A different kind of URL shortener
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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The syncbox
Sunday, June 13th, 2010
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A tiny little dpaste.com API
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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Pocket Django
Saturday, May 17th, 2008
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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A weather site in six (declarative) lines
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
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Free to be, you and wmii
Sunday, January 13th, 2008
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6 comments

Bicycle Repair Man bundle for TextMate
Saturday, April 14th, 2007
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