Simon Willison is a British programmer, co-founder of the social conference directory Lanyrd, and Director of Architecture at Eventbrite. Originating from the UK, he currently resides in San Francisco, California. Simon is a co-creator of the Django Web framework and is a frequent public speaker. Currently (November 2022) he is working on the Datasette project and other related projects. Simon started his professional web development in 2000 as a web master and developer for the UK based website Gameplay, where he was instrumental in creating File Monster, a large games related file download site. In 2001 he left to attend the University of Bath. Whilst studying, he worked part-time for Incutio where he developed the Incutio XML-RPC Library, a popular XML-RPC library for PHP (used in WordPress and Drupal). During this time Simon started his web development blog. In developing the software for his blog, Simon built one of the first implementations of pingback. Through his blog he was an early adopter and evangelist of OpenID. More information...
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