This is a cookbook and you may read the chapters in any order. The recipes need not be read sequentially. There are a good amount of code examples and relevant screenshots to ease learning pains. The target audience are Python developers with basic knowledge of web2py who want to gain further knowledge of web2py
Author Biography:
Pablo Martin Mulone is a full-time web developer and software designer. He co-runs his own company located in Argentina, which is dedicated to bring IT solution to libraries, archives, and government in matter of documentary preservation. He has an extensive experience in FLOSS projects and associated tools. He is the creator of instant2press and CMS/ blog that is developed in web2py framework. His company created the patrimoniosf. gov.ar heritage database, which was built for the state government of Santa Fe. Mariano Reingart lives in Buenos Aires (Argentina), and is a specialist in database administration, and development of software applications and libraries (web services, PDF, replication, and so on), with more than 10 years of experience. Currently, he is the PostgreSQL regional contact for Argentina and a web2py contributor, with more than 14 open source projects, including interface for Free Electronic Invoice web services (PyAfipWs) and Pythonic Replication for PostgreSQL (PyReplica). Mariano has a bachelor's degree in Computer Systems Analysis from the University of Moron, and currently works on his own funded startup formed by an open group of independent professionals, which is dedicated to software development, training, and technical support, focusing on open source tools (GNU/Linux, Python, PostgreSQL and web2py). Mariano has worked for local Python companies in large business applications (ERP, SCM, and CRM) and mission critical systems (election counting, electronic voting, and 911 emergency events support). He has contributed to the book web2py Enterprise Web Framework 3rd Edition, and for several Spanish translation efforts of the PostgreSQL official documentation. You can find his resume at: http://reingart.blogspot.com/p/resume.html. Richard Gordon has 30 years of experience in agile web development and industrial design-automation software. He has a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Science Baccalaureate with honors from Brown University. His career spans microprocessor design at AT&T Bell laboratories, electronic-design-automation, software development at Mentor Graphics and Tera Systems, which he founded. He is the founder and lead YAK at YAKiToMe! Co., the Internet's first text-to-speech SaaS portal.
