Mark Pilgrim (software developer)
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| Born | November 24, 1972 |
| Residence | Apex, North Carolina, USA |
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| http://diveintomark.org/[dead link] | |
Mark Pilgrim is a software developer, writer, and advocate of free software. He authored a popular blog, and has written several books including Dive into Python, a guide to the Python programming language published under the GNU Free Documentation License. Formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM Emerging Technologies Group,[1] he started working at Google in March 2007.[2]
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[edit] Books and articles
[edit] Dive Into Python
Pilgrim's book Dive Into Python is a teach-by-example guide to the paradigms of programming in Python and modern software development techniques. It assumes some preexisting knowledge of programming, although not necessarily in Python. The first edition was published in 2004 (ISBN 1-59059-356-1), and a 2009 second edition (ISBN 9781430224150) covers Python 3. Both are available online as well as in print.[3][4]
Much of the book consists of example programs with annotations and explanatory text, generally describe how to modify an example to serve new purposes. One early example program reads through a directory of MP3 files and lists the header information, such as artist, album, etc. Other topics covered include object oriented programming, documentation, unit testing, and accessing and parsing HTML and XML.
[edit] Other work
- Greasemonkey Hacks Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox, O'Reilly, 2005
- Dive Into Accessibility, a free book on web accessibility, for web designers
- Dive into Greasemonkey[dead link], a free book on Greasemonkey.
- Dive into HTML 5, a free book on HTML5
Mark has also written a monthly column Dive Into XML for O'Reilly's XML.com.
[edit] Open source work
Mark Pilgrim has contributed to a number of open source works including
[edit] "Disappearance" from the Internet
From 4 October 2011, Mark Pilgrim's various websites (diveintomark.org, Dive Into HTML5, Dive Into Accessibility, Dive Into Greasemonkey, Dive Into Python, etc.) returned HTTP status 410 Gone.[5] He also deleted his Twitter, Reddit, Google+ and Github accounts.[6][7] On 5 October 2011 Jason Scott Sadofsky tweeted that Pilgrim himself was "alive/annoyed we called the police".[8]
Both Pilgrim's actions in October 2011 and why the lucky stiff's similar disappearance in August 2009 have been described as "infosuicide".[9][10][11]
[edit] References
- ^ "IBM developerworks: Making emerging technologies accessible". http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/dw_blog.jspa?blog=354. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- ^ "Two visions: Blog post at Mark's official site". 2007-03-19. http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/03/19/two-visions. Retrieved 2007-03-22.[dead link]
- ^ Mark Pilgrim (2000–2004). "Dive Into Python: Python from novice to pro". http://www.diveintopython.net/. Retrieved October 2011.
- ^ Mark Pilgrim (2001–2009). "Dive Into Python 3". http://diveintopython3.ep.io/. Retrieved October 2011.
- ^ Status code 410: Gone
- ^ Searching For Mark Pilgrim, Eric Meyer
- ^ Hacker News.
- ^ "Mark Pilgrim is alive/annoyed we called the police. Please stand down and give the man privacy and space, and thanks everyone for caring." [1]
- ^ Let's Discuss: Infosuicide, Christopher T. Miller
- ^ "Mark Pilgrim, author of many 'Dive into ...' books and guides, has — as the saying now goes — 'committed infosuicide' [...]" Searching For Mark Pilgrim
- ^ 410 Gone - Thoughts on Mark "diveintomark" Pilgrim's and _why's infosuicides, Scott Hanselman
[edit] External links
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Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mark Pilgrim |
- "Dive into Mark - Personal site". Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. http://web.archive.org/web/20110718034434/http://diveintomark.org/. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- Mark Pilgrim (October 21, 2009). Dive Into Python 3. ISBN 1430224150. http://diveintopython3.ep.io/. Retrieved 2010-10-26.
- Dive Into Python - The complete text can be downloaded in a variety of formats
- Mike Orr (January 5, 2005). "Dive Into Python by Mark Pilgrim". Linux Journal. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7721. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- Works by or about Mark Pilgrim (software developer) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
