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For the South African TV presenter, see Mark Pilgrim (presenter)
Mark Pilgrim (presenter)

Mark Pilgrim is one of the most recognisable personalities in South Africa. He has hosted numerous radio and television shows over the years, most notably as a DJ on 5FM and 94.7 Highveld Stereo, as well as the host of Big Brother and the Power of 10....






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For the South African TV presenter, see Mark Pilgrim (presenter)
Mark Pilgrim (presenter)

Mark Pilgrim is one of the most recognisable personalities in South Africa. He has hosted numerous radio and television shows over the years, most notably as a DJ on 5FM and 94.7 Highveld Stereo, as well as the host of Big Brother and the Power of 10....


Mark Pilgrim is the author of Dive into Python
Dive into Python

Dive into Python , by Mark Pilgrim is a teach-by-example guide to the paradigms of programming in Python and modern software development techniques....
, a guide to the Python programming language
Python (programming language)

Python is a general-purpose high-level programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability. Python's core syntax and semantics are Minimalism , while the standard library is large and comprehensive....
 and popular blog
Blog

A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video....
ger. He is an advocate of Free Software
Free software

Free Software or software libre is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with minimal restrictions only to ensure that further recipients can also do these things and to prevent consumer-facing hardware...
 and Dive into Python is published under the GNU Free Documentation License
GNU Free Documentation License

The GNU Free Documentation License is a copyleft license for free documentation, designed by the Free Software Foundation for the GNU Project....
.

Mark Pilgrim was formerly an accessibility architect in the IBM
IBM

International Business Machines Corporation, abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue" , is a multinational corporation computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, New York, United States....
 Emerging Technologies Group.

In March 2007, he started working at Google
Google

Google Inc. is an United States public company, earning revenue from AdWords related to its Google search, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Apps, Orkut, and YouTube services as well as selling advertising-free versions of the Google Search Appliance....
.

Books

  • Greasemonkey Hacks Tips & Tools for Remixing the Web with Firefox, O'Reilly
    O'Reilly Media

    O'Reilly Media is an American Mass media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics....
    , 2005
  • , a free Python book for experienced programmers, Apress
    Apress

    Apress, Inc. is a publisher of information technology books, based in Berkeley, California.Apress was founded by authors Gary Cornell and Dan Appleman....
  • , a free book on web accessibility, for web designers
  • , a free book on Greasemonkey
    Greasemonkey

    Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox Add-on that allows users to install scripting programming language that make On the fly changes to most HTML-based web pages....
    .


Mark has also written a monthly column for O'Reilly
O'Reilly Media

O'Reilly Media is an American Mass media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics....
's XML.com.

Open Source Work

Mark Pilgrim has contributed to a number of open source works including


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