Ninad Sathaye - Python Multimedia Application Beginners Guide : Learn How to Develop Multimedia Applications Using Python with This Practical Step-by-Step Guide

Ninad Sathaye (<>) has more than six years of experience in software design and development. He is currently working at IBM, India. Prior to working for IBM, he was a Systems Programmer at Nanorex Inc. based in Michigan, U.S.A. At Nanorex, he was involved in the development of an open source, interactive 3D CAD software, written in Python and C. This is where he developed passion for the Python programming language. Besides programming, his favorite hobbies are reading and traveling.

Ninad holds a Master of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Kansas State University, U.S.A.

I would like to thank everyone at Packt Publishing, especially, Eleanor Duffy, Steven Wilding, Charu Sankaran, and Prasad Rai for their co-operation. This book wouldn't have been possible without your help. I also want to thank all the technical reviewers of the book for their valuable suggestions. I wish to express my sincere thanks and appreciation to Rahul Nayak, my colleague, who provided many professional quality photographs for this book. I owe a special thanks to Mark Sims and Bruce Smith, my former colleagues, for introducing me to the amusing world of Python. Finally, this book wouldn't have been possible without the encouragement and support of my whole family. I owe my loving thanks to my wife, Arati, for providing valuable feedback. She also happens to be the photographer of several of the pictures used throughout this book.

Maurice HT Ling completed his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics and B.Sc (Hons) in Molecular and Cell Biology, where he worked on microarray analysis and text mining for protein-protein interactions. He is currently an Honorary Fellow at The University of Melbourne and a Lecturer at Singapore Polytechnic where he lectures on microbiology and computational biology.

Maurice holds several Chief Editorships including The Python Papers, iConcept Journal of Computational and Mathematical Biology , and Methods and Cases in Computational, Mathematical , and Statistical Biology . In his free time, Maurice likes to train in the gym, read, and enjoy a good cup of coffee. He is also a Senior Fellow of the International Fitness Association, U.S.A.

Daniel Waterworth is a Python fanatic who can often be found behind his keyboard. He is always beavering away on a new project having learned to program from a young age. He is a keen blogger and his ideas can be found at http://active-thought.com.

Sivan Greenberg is a Forum Nokia Champion, with almost ten years of multi-disciplinary IT experience and a sharp eye for quality. He started with open source technologies and the Debian project back in 2002. Joining Ubuntu development two years later, Sivan also contributed to various other open source projects, such as Plone and Nokia's Maemo.

He has experience with quality assurance, application and web development, UNIX system administration (including some rather exotic IBM platforms), and GUI programming and documentation. He's been using Python for all of his development needs for the last five years. He is currently involved with Nokia's MeeGo project and works with CouchDB and Python in his day job for a living.

I thank my unique and amazing family, specifically my Dad Eric for igniting the spark of curiosity from day zero.

To my daughter, Anvita