Adrian Holovaty
Co-creator of Django; founded EveryBlock and Soundslice; guitarist.
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- Adrian Holovaty is an American web developer, musician and entrepreneur who lives in Amsterdam.
- At the Lawrence Journal-World he co-created the Django web framework, and he and Jacob Kaplan-Moss were its Benevolent Dictators for Life until January 2014.
- He founded EveryBlock in 2007, which MSNBC bought in 2009, and co-founded Soundslice, a site for learning music, in 2012.
- He plays fingerstyle and Gypsy jazz guitar.
Key facts
- Born
- 1981; grew up in Naperville, Illinois1
- Django
- Co-created it at the Lawrence Journal-World, 2002 to 2005; a Benevolent Dictator for Life until January 20141
- Founded
- chicagocrime.org (2005); EveryBlock (2007, bought by MSNBC in 2009); Soundslice, with PJ Macklin (2012)1
- W3C
- Co-chair of the Music Notation Community Group from 20181
- Before
- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Lawrence Journal-World and washingtonpost.com1
- Education
- Missouri School of Journalism, 20011
- Lives in
- Amsterdam1
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