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.
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by Paul Bissex
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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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podcasting
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writing
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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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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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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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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
Simon Griffee
Django Mercurial mirror tweaks
3 days ago
Jason Calleiro
From PHP to Python
4 days ago
Yuli
dpaste.com
7 days ago
bruce
Neat Python hack: infix operators
11 days ago
David Reynolds
The original Lego Star Wars
19 days ago
Jason Davies
Python one-liner of the day
21 days ago
Paddy3118
Let's play a game: BASIC vs. Ruby vs. Python vs. PHP
21 days ago
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