[ DABEAZ LLC]

Dabeaz LLC is David Beazley, an independent software developer and book author living in the city of Chicago. I primarily work on programming tools, provide custom software development, and teach practical programming courses for software developers, scientists, and engineers. I am best known for my work with the Python programming language where I have created several open-source packages (e.g., Swig and PLY) and authored the acclaimed Python Essential Reference. However, I also have significant experience with systems programming in C, C++, and assembly language.

News

(3/15/12) I was a keynote speaker at PyCon 2012 where I gave a talk about PyPy. Watch the video!

(11/15/11) You can now watch the talk I gave about the GIL at RuPy [blip.tv].

(02/17/11) PLY-3.4 has been released. This version patches a few things up for Python-3.2.

(12/16/10) I'm pleased to announce that Brian Jones and I have teamed up with O'Reilly and ActiveState to produce the Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition. More information on my blog.

(10/06/10) I just posted the official errata for the Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition.

(01/20/10) The Python Essential Reference is reviewed on Slashdot. The book hits the "sweet spot of concise usefulness."

(7/19/09) The Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition is now available! This is the best edition yet with extended coverage of advanced Python features such as generators, coroutines, context managers, and more. Covers both Python 2.6 and Python 3.0.

Contact

More information can be obtained by sending email to "dave" at "dabeaz.com" [ Follow on Twitter ]