Acknowledgments

web2py was originally developed by and copyrighted by Massimo Di Pierro. The first version (1.0) was released in October, 2007. Since then it has been adopted by many users, some of whom have also contributed bug reports, testing, debugging, patches, and proofreading of this book.

Some of the major developers and contributors are, in alphabetical order by first name:

Adam Bryzak, Adam Gojdas, Adrian Klaver, Alain Boulch, Alan Etkin, Alec Taylor, Alexandre Andrade, Alexey Nezhdanov, Alvaro Justen, Anand Vaidya, Anatoly Belyakov, Ander Arbelaiz, Anders Roos, Andrew Replogle, Andrew Willimott, Angelo Compagnucci, Angelo and Villas, Annet Vermeer, Anthony Bastardi, Anton Muecki, Antonio Ramos, Arun Rajeevan, Attila Csipa, Ben Goosman, Ben Reinhart, Benjamin, Bernd Rothert, Bill Ferret, Blomqvist, Boris Manojlovic, Branko Vukelic, Brent Zeiben, Brian Cottingham, Brian Harrison, Brian Meredyk, Bruno Rocha, CJ Lazell, Caleb Hattingh, Carlos Galindo, Carlos Hanson, Carsten Haese, Cedric Meyer, Charles Law, Charles Winebrinner, Chris Clark, Chris May, Chris Sanders, Christian Foster Howes, Christopher Smiga, Christopher Steel, Clavin Sim, Cliff Kachinske, Corne Dickens, Craig Younkins, Dan McGee, Dan Ragubba, Dane Wright, Danny Morgan, Daniel Gonz, Daniel Haag, Daniel Lin, Dave Stoll, David Adley, David Harrison, David Lin, David Marko, David Wagner, Denes Lengyel, Diaz Luis, Dirk Krause, Dominic Koenig, Doug Warren, Douglas Philips, Douglas Soares de Andrade, Douglas and Alan, Dustin Bensing, Elcio Ferreira, Eric Vicenti, Erwin Olario, Falko Krause, Farsheed Ashouri, Felipe Meirelles, Flavien Scheurer, Fran Boon, Francisco Gama, Fred Yanowski, Friedrich Weber, Gabriele Alberti, Gergely Kontra, Gergely Peli, Gerley Kontra, Gilson Filho, Glenn Caltech, Graham Dumpleton, Gregory Benjamin, Gustavo Di Pietro, Gyuris Szabolcs, Hamdy Abdel-Badeea, Hans C. v. Stockhausen, Hans Donner, Hans Murx, Huaiyu Wang, Ian Reinhart Geiser, Iceberg, Igor Gassko, Igor Moskvitin, Ismael Serratos, Jan Beilicke, Jay Kelkar, Jeff Bauer, Jesus Matrinez, Jim Karsten, Joachim Breitsprecher, Joakim Eriksson, Joe Barnhart, Joel Carrier, Joel Samuelsson, John Heenan, Jon Romero, Jonas Rundberg, Jonathan Benn, Jonathan Lundell, Jose Jachuf, Joseph Piron, Josh Goldfoot, Josh Jaques, Jose Vicente de Sousa, Jurgis Pralgauskis, Keith Yang, Kenji Hosoda, Kenneth Lundstr, Kirill Spitsin, Kyle Smith, Larry Weinberg, Leonel Camara, Limodou, Loren McGinnis, Louis DaPrato, Luca De Alfaro, Luca Zachetti, Lucas D’Avila, Madhukar R Pai, Manuele Pesenti, Marc Abramowitz, Marcel Hellkamp, Marcel Leuthi, Marcello Della Longa, Margaret Greaney, Maria Mitica, Mariano Reingart, Marin Prajic, Marin Pranji, Marius van Niekerk, Mark Kirkwood, Mark Larsen, Mark Moore, Markus Gritsch, Mart Senecal, Martin Hufsky, Martin Mulone, Martin Weissenboeck, Mateusz Banach, Mathew Grabau, Mathieu Clabaut, Matt Doiron, Matthew Norris, Michael Fig, Michael Herman, Michael Howden, Michael Jursa, Michael Toomim, Michael Willis, Michele Comitini, Miguel Goncalves, Miguel Lopez, Mike Amy, Mike Dickun, Mike Ellis, Mike Pechkin, Milan Melena, Muhammet Aydin, Napoleon Moreno, Nathan Freeze, Niall Sweeny, Niccolo Polo, Nick Groenke, Nick Vargish, Nico de Groot, Nico Zanferrari, Nicolas Bruxer, Nik Klever, Olaf Ferger, Oliver Dain, Olivier Roch Vilato, Omi Chiba, Ondrej Such, Ont Rif, Oscar Benjamin, Osman Masood, Ovidio Marinho Falcao Neto, Pai, Panos Jee, Paolo Betti, Paolo Caruccio, Paolo Gasparello, Paolo Pastori, Paolo Valleri, Patrick Breitenbach, Pearu Peterson, Peli Gergely, Pete Hunt, Peter Kirchner, Phyo Arkar Lwin, Pierre Thibault, Pieter Muller, Piotr Banasziewicz, Ramjee Ganti, Richard Gordon, Richard Ree, Robert Kooij, Robert Valentak, Roberto Perdomo, Robin Bhattacharyya, Roman Bataev, Ron McOuat, Ross Peoples, Ruijun Luo, Running Calm, Ryan Seto, Salomon Derossi, Sam Sheftel, Scott Roberts, Sebastian Ortiz, Sergey Podlesnyi, Sharriff Aina, Simone Bizzotto, Sriram Durbha, Sterling Hankins, Stuart Rackham, Telman Yusupov, Terrence Brannon, Thadeus Burgess, Thomas Dallagnese, Tim Farrell, Tim Michelsen, Tim Richardson, Timothy Farrell, Tito Garrido, Tyrone Hattingh, Vasile Ermicioi, Vidul Nikolaev Petrov, Vidul Petrov, Vinicius Assef, Vladimir Donnikov, Vladyslav Kozlovsky, Vladyslav Kozlovskyy, Vinyl Wolf, Wang Huaiyu, Wen Gong, Wes James, Will Stevens, Yair Eshel, Yarko Tymciurak, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, Younghyun Jo, Zahariash.

I am sure I forgot somebody, so I apologize.

I particularly thank Anthony, Simone, Richard, Jonathan, Mariano, Bruno, Vladyslav, Martin, Nathan, Thadeus, Tim, Iceberg, Denes, Hans, Christian, Fran and Patrick for their major contributions to web2py and Anthony, Alvaro, Brian, Bruno, Denes, Dane Denny, Erwin, Felipe, Graham, Jonathan, Hans, Kyle, Mark, Margaret, Michele, Nico, Richard, Roberto, Robin, Roman, Scott, Shane, Sharriff, Sriram, Sterling, Stuart, Thadeus, Wen (and others) for proofreading various versions of this book. Their contribution was invaluable. If you find any errors in this book, they are exclusively my fault, probably introduced by a last-minute edit. I also thank Ryan Steffen of Wiley Custom Learning Solutions for help with publishing the first edition of this book.

web2py contains code from the following authors, whom I would like to thank:

Guido van Rossum for Python[python], Peter Hunt, Richard Gordon, Timothy Farrell for the Rocket[rocket] web server, Christopher Dolivet for EditArea[editarea], Bob Ippolito for simplejson[simplejson], Simon Cusack and Grant Edwards for pyRTF[pyrtf], Dalke Scientific Software for pyRSS2Gen[pyrss2gen], Mark Pilgrim for feedparser[feedparser], Trent Mick for markdown2[markdown2], Allan Saddi for fcgi.py, Evan Martin for the Python memcache module[memcache], John Resig for jQuery[jquery].

I thank Helmut Epp (provost of DePaul University), David Miller (Dean of the College of Computing and Digital Media of DePaul University), and Estia Eichten (Member of MetaCryption LLC), for their continuous trust and support.

Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Claudia, and my son, Marco, for putting up with me during the many hours I have spent developing web2py, exchanging emails with users and collaborators, and writing this book. This book is dedicated to them.