Jacob Kaplan-Moss is one of the lead developers of Django. At his day job, he’s the lead developer for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, KS where Django was developed.

At the Journal-World, Kaplan-Moss hacks on a number of sites including lawrence.com, ljworld.com, and kusports.com. He has co-authored a book on Django, “Pro Django: Web Development Done Right”. In this interview, he tells us about Django, his views on Open Source and about AJAX + Django.

Few years back, a lot of developers were tending to hear about Python than about Ruby, so a lot of them shifted to Python. Now, Its likely to have heard about Ruby, especially Java enthusiasts seems to have a love-hate relationship with Ruby and ROR. While there are some who feel it’s over hyped, there are others who feel that Rails is the coolest web application. So who better to talk about Ruby on Rails than the creator of ROR, David Heinemeier Hansson.
In this interview David talks about the growth of Rails and its features. He also tells us why Rails is relevant to Java developers.

It’s
hard to believe that Pearu Peterson doesn’t have any computer
background. He has a Masters degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in studying interactions of water waves. But he is also the author of  F2PY (Fortran to Python Interface generator)  and has contributed to various Python based scientific computing tools
like, SciPy, GiNaC and GMPY. He is also involved in the Python numpy.distutils package.

In this interview he not only tells us why Python is his preferred langauge but also talks about Python’s evolution and developments on his various open source projects like SciPy.

Ted Leung has been working in the IT industry for more than two decades. He is the author of the book “XML Development with Apache Tools” also he has been actively involved with Apache Software Foundation and Open Source Applications Foundation. In this interview, he tells us about his projects, his views on Open Source and Python-XML combination.

If you are a regular reader of Titus Brown’s blogs then you wont believe that Titus Brown is a biology graduate and is working on molecular developmental biology, genomics and bioinformatics. His ultimate goal is to be a professor, working on interesting things and molding young minds . Programming is his hobby, he enjoys a lot of programming and hacking. In this interview he talks about Twill as well as his Python based projects like Cartwheel, FamilyRelations and PyWX. He also tells us his views on Agile Development and Testing In Python. If you are a ZOPE user then you will definitely like to read his explanation on “Zope is evil”.

Can Ajax fit into the Python applications and frameworks ? In this interview, Dave Crane not only talks about Ajax but also about how Ajax can fit into the kind of applications and frameworks we are used to working with today. He also tells us why he feels Ajax has become so popular in such a short time. Dave is the author of "Ajax in Action" and has been working with Ajax technologies for several years. He likes to code in Python, Java, Ruby. According to him Ajax technologies aren’t particularly new or sexy.