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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.

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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 67589 pieces of comment spam killed since January 2008, mostly via Akismet.

9 posts tagged "vcs"

Branching and merging in real life
Saturday, November 7th, 2009
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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
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Mercurial 1.0 released
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008
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A Mercurial mirror of Django's Subversion repository
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
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Mercurial: good enough for now
Saturday, September 8th, 2007
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darcs on pair.com
Wednesday, August 8th, 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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Obscure "svn mv" problem solved
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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