Adrian Holovaty (born 1981) is an American Web developer, journalist and entrepreneur living in Chicago, Illinois. He is co-creator of the Django Web framework and a noted advocate of "journalism via computer programming."
Holovaty, a Ukrainian American, grew up in Naperville, Illinois. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2001 and worked as a Web developer/journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lawrence Journal-World ...
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Adrian Holovaty (born 1981) is an American Web developer, journalist and entrepreneur living in Chicago, Illinois. He is co-creator of the Django Web framework and a noted advocate of "journalism via computer programming."
Holovaty, a Ukrainian American, grew up in Naperville, Illinois. He graduated from the Missouri School of Journalism in 2001 and worked as a Web developer/journalist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lawrence Journal-World and The Washington Post before starting EveryBlock, a Web startup that provides "microlocal" news, in 2007.
While working at the Lawrence Journal-World from 2002 to 2005, he and other Web developers (Simon Willison, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Wilson Miner ) created Django, an open source web application framework for Python. He and Kaplan-Moss are the framework's Benevolent Dictators for Life, meaning the two lead the frameworks development, resolving disputes and generally having the final say. Holovaty co-wrote The Django Book, whose first...
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