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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. 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.

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53 posts tagged "web development"

A different kind of URL shortener
Sunday, August 29th, 2010
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robots.txt via Django, in one line
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
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Django LogEntry to the rescue
Friday, February 13th, 2009
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Making your way from PHP to Python and Django
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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How not to advocate via Google Code
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
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From PHP to Python
Thursday, March 13th, 2008
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World's ugliest Django app
Monday, January 21st, 2008
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darcs on pair.com
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007
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Django Unicodification
Friday, July 13th, 2007
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Django.June
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007
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An embarrassment of RichIAs
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
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Color names in JSON format
Sunday, May 6th, 2007
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My first DOS
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
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In-place import using Subversion
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
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The future of HTML is now
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007

Liking jQuery
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
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Meta-roundup of Javascript libraries
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
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Good web hosting
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
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Advice on sequencing items in web interfaces?
Friday, January 5th, 2007
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dpaste.com update
Friday, December 29th, 2006
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STFU
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
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The Django Book
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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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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SourceForge needs help
Wednesday, September 13th, 2006
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Root, sweet root
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
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Trying to send eBay a message?
Friday, May 26th, 2006
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Web developer evolution
Sunday, May 21st, 2006
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Framework de-flummoxing
Friday, May 19th, 2006
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Django as superego
Tuesday, May 16th, 2006
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Offsite, online backup: rsync.net
Thursday, May 11th, 2006
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Dabble DB
Monday, April 24th, 2006
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Random crufty open source release of the day
Saturday, April 15th, 2006
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Moving the blog to Django
Monday, April 10th, 2006
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PHP and view/controller separation
Saturday, March 4th, 2006
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The little things one learns
Thursday, March 2nd, 2006
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Baby steps with Ajax
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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JavaScript and the thickening client
Sunday, February 26th, 2006
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The Million Beta Homepage
Monday, February 6th, 2006
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Web Inspector, a DOM inspector for WebKit
Friday, January 20th, 2006
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How to say you're sorry
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
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A minimal wiki in Django
Monday, December 12th, 2005
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Windows Live Local
Thursday, December 8th, 2005
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Let's argue about scalability some more
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005

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Rails/Django lovefest in Chicago
Monday, December 5th, 2005
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Tantek on CSS hacks
Monday, November 28th, 2005
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Brainbenched
Monday, November 28th, 2005
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WebKit screen-grabbers
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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Taxonomy of Bubble 2.0
Sunday, October 30th, 2005
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The MySpace worm
Thursday, October 13th, 2005
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The Onion moves to Drupal
Sunday, September 4th, 2005
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