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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

Python Web Development with Django 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.

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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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20 posts tagged "web frameworks"

Making your way from PHP to Python and Django
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
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The Language I Will Kind of Learn in 2008: Smalltalk
Saturday, February 9th, 2008
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A little something I've been working on
Monday, January 14th, 2008
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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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The Zend Framework
Wednesday, March 8th, 2006
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YAPWF: Aaron Swartz's web.py released
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006
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4 comments

Turbogears and Subway to merge?
Saturday, December 31st, 2005
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Ruby on Rails 1.0
Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
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TrimPath Junction: a pure Javascript clone of Rails
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
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TurboGears progress, or, bring on the CRUD
Sunday, November 6th, 2005
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3 comments

Locomotive: Rails for OS X
Saturday, October 22nd, 2005
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Controller freaks
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
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YAPWF: TurboGears
Sunday, September 18th, 2005
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Django progress
Friday, August 26th, 2005
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Django, Rails, and PHP
Friday, August 19th, 2005
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Railing
Monday, August 1st, 2005
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Everything on Rails
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
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Cake
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
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Python web framework mania
Wednesday, July 13th, 2005
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