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About Me

PBX 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.

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This runs on Django, 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. The markup engine is Markdown.

The Book

Book cover I'm co-author of "Python Web Development with Django", an excellent guide to my favorite web framework. Published by Addison-Wesley in October 2008, it is available from Amazon and your favorite technical bookstore as well. Click on the book title above to learn more.

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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

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What is the iPhone running, really?

iphone In case you missed it, Apple has a new product. You can't, you know, buy it or anything just yet -- that'll be about six months. And $500, please. While you wait you can compare it to the competition.

They claim that it runs OS X. Hm. I can imagine there's a BSD kernel (running on what processor I don't know), QuickTime, WebKit... but really, how much of the stuff in the standard OS X architecture diagram is actually going to be in that phone?

Of course, I really only care about one thing: will there be a shell?

Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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Some related posts: iPod touch: holding steady • The iPhone keyboard doesn't suck • iPod touch: one week down, one week to go • A farewell to Palms (hello, iPod touch) • iPhone hacking • iPhone, youPhone, weallPhone • Gruber on AppleScript • Mac troubleshooting tips + bonus rant • PyObjC in, Cocoa-Java out • Palm/Mac sync woes

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