Michel Anders - Python 3 web development beginners guide : use Python to create, theme, and deploy unique web applications

Michel Anders , after his chemistry and physics studies where he spent more time on computer simulations than on real world experiments, the author found his real interests lay with IT and Internet technology, and worked as an IT manager for several different companies, including an Internet provider, a hospital, and a software development company.

After his initial exposure to Python as the built-in scripting language of Blender, the popular 3D modeling and rendering suite, the language became his tool of choice for many projects.

He lives happily in a small converted farm, with his partner, three cats, and twelve goats. This tranquil environment proved to be ideally suited to writing his first book, Blender 2.49 Scripting (Packt Publishing , 978-1-849510-40-0).

He loves to help people with Blender and Python-related questions and may be contacted as 'varkenvarken' at http://www.blenderartists.org/ and maintains a blog on Python-specific subjects at http://michelanders.blogspot.com/.

For Clementine, always.

Michael Driscoll has been programming Python since the Spring of 2006 and has dabbled in other languages since the late nineties. He graduated from the University with a Bachelors of Science degree, majoring in Management Information Systems. Michael enjoys programming for fun and profit. His hobbies include Biblical apologetics, blogging about Python at http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/, and learning photography. Michael currently works for the local government, where he does programming with Python as much as possible. Michael was also a Technical Reviewer for Python 3: Object Oriented Programming by Dusty Phillips and Python Graphics Cookbook by Mike Ohlson de Fine (both by Packt Publishing) .

I would like to thank my friends and family for their support and the fun times they share with me. Most of all, I want to thank Jesus for saving me from myself.

Rman Joost discovered open source software in 1997. He is the project manager for user documentation for GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP). Rman also helped with German internationalization of GIMP. He has been contributing to GIMP and Zope open source projects for eight years.

Rman has a Diplom-Informatiker (FH) from the University of Applied Sciences in Koethen (Anhalt). He has worked for Zope companies Gocept GmbH & Co in Germany, Infrae in The Netherlands, and is currently working for a Zope company in Brisbane, Australia. For relaxation, he enjoys photography and digital painting with GIMP.

Tomi Juhola is a software development professional from Finland. He has a wide range of development experience from embedded systems to modern distributed enterprise systems in various roles such as tester, developer, consultant, and trainer.

Currently, he works in a financial company and shares this time between development lead duties and helping other projects to adopt Scrum and Agile methodologies. He likes to spend his free time with new interesting development languages and frameworks.

He has reviewed conference proposals, a Python development book, and has also published his own Master's theses on Agile embedded development.

Andrew Nicholson is a computer engineer with over fourteen years of professional experience in a broad range of computing technologies. He is currently a Technical Director with Infinite Recursion Pty Ltd. a bespoke software engineering company located in Sydney, Australia. He is a passionate advocate and a participant in the free, libre, and open source software (FLOSS) community and has actively participated since 1999 contributing code, ideas, and energy in this engineering community. He was a Technical Reviewer for the book Python Testing: Beginner's Guide (2010), Packt Publishing .

Nicholson has a B.Eng (Computer) [Honours 1] from Newcastle University, Australia and a M.Eng (Wireless) with Merit from Sydney University, Australia.

Nicholson's biography can be read at http://www.infiniterecursion.com.au/people/.