Apress Author Adrian Holovaty Wins $1.1 million Knight-Ridder Grant

Jun 26, 04:33 pm

This happened about a month ago but has really been low key despite the enormous potential implications. Adrian Holovaty, co-author of the forthcoming Apress book Pro Django, and creator of the Django framework, has won a $1.1 million grant by Knight-Ridder to fund his startup Everyblock, which promises to “aggregate an unprecedented depth of local news and information in select cities.”

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Congratulations Adrian!!



    1. congrats adrian
      i m very happy to hear this news.
      the web framework u have created,django, is one of the best web framewok i have ever used.

      keep on polishing django web framewok
      keep rocking with django framework and of course your guitar too




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