- Adrian Holovaty
Adrian Holovaty is an American web developer living in
Chicago, Illinois . He is one of the lead developers of the Django web framework.__NOTOC__Early life and school
Holovaty grew up in
Naperville, Illinois , where he developed a fascination with computers. As a first-generation American, he went to a Ukrainian school and often speaks to his parents in Ukrainian.He enrolled at the
University of Missouri–Columbia in August 1998 and graduated early in December 2001, receiving a bachelor degree injournalism .Career and Django development
In December 2002, Holovaty started work at World Online, the online department of the World Company, a family-owned media corporation in
Lawrence, Kansas . While with World Online, he and other web developers (Simon Willison , [http://www.jacobian.org/ Jacob Kaplan-Moss] and [http://www.wilsonminer.com/ Wilson Miner] ) created Django, anopen source , high-levelweb application framework written inPython (programming language) .In 2005 he launched [http://www.chicagocrime.org/ chicagocrime.org] a freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago. The site won the [http://www.j-lab.org/batten05finalists.shtml 2005 Batten Award for Innovations in Journalism] , was named by the
New York Times as one of 2005's best ideas, and has been covered in various international media.Holovaty continued to work on Django development after he left World Online in September 2005 to join
washingtonpost.com , the flagship website ofWashingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive .In May 2007 he was awarded a grant by the
Knight Foundation , as part of the [http://www.newschallenge.org/ Knight News Challenge] program. As a consequence, he left washingtonpost.com to found a Web startup, [http://www.everyblock.com/ EveryBlock] , that focuses on making local news and information useful.cite web
first = Adrian
last = Holovaty
date = 2007-05-23
title = Knight Foundation grant
url = http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2007/05/23/1145
accessdate = 2007-08-13] cite web
first = Daniel
last = Schultz
date = 2007-06-08
title = EveryBlock: One-Stop Shop for Local Info
url = http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=31&aid=124304
publisher = [http://www.poynter.org/ Poynter Online]
accessdate = 2007-08-13]References
External links
* [http://www.holovaty.com Personal weblog]
* [http://www.chicagocrime.org/ chicagocrime.org] - A freely browsable database of crimes reported in Chicago.
* [http://www.everyblock.com/ EveryBlock] - A site that aggregates an unprecedented depth of local news and information in select cities. Support for this project is provided by a grant from theKnight Foundation .
Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.
