About the Authors

ADRIAN HOLOVATY, a Web developer/journalist, is one of the creators and core developers of Django. He is the founder of EveryBlock, a local news Web startup.

When not working on Django improvements, Adrian hacks on side projects for the public good, such as chicagocrime.org, one of the original Google Maps mashups. He lives in Chicago and maintains a weblog at http://holovaty.com.

JACOB KAPLAN-MOSS is one of the lead developers of Django. At his day job, he's the lead developer for Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, Kansas, where Django was developed.

At Journal-World, Jacob hacks on a number of sites, including lawrence.com, LJworld.com, and KUsports.com, and is continually embarrassed by the multitude of media awards those sites win. In his spare time what little of it there is he fancies himself a chef.