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
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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The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck
Python one-liner of the day
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How not to advocate via Google Code
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99 problems
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The original Lego Star Wars
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Toolbot.com source code available on request
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Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
3 days ago
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From PHP to Python
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dpaste.com
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Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
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The original Lego Star Wars
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Python one-liner of the day
21 days ago
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Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
21 days ago
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