Michael Foord has been programming with Python since 2002. For several years Michael developed full-time with IronPython, becoming the first Microsoft MVP for dynamic languages, and the author of "IronPython in Action" for Manning Publications. Michael is now a freelance software developer, currently doing web development with Django and Silverlight. Michael is also a PSF member and a core Python developer, maintaining the standard-library testing framework unittest. Michael writes and blogs about Python far more than is healthy, and in the real world lives in Northampton, UK, with his wife Delia.