About Me
Jeff Shell, currently living in Salt Lake City, UT
Professional
I've been doing Python web development professionally since early 1997, and unprofessionally since 1996. After rolling some of my own toolkits, I switched to Bobo, aka The Python Object Publisher in spring of 1997. The Python Object Publisher became the foundation for Principia (late 1997) and then Zope (late 1998). I joined Zope Corporation in 1997 and worked for them in Virginia for four years before returning to Salt Lake to be near family, to ski poorly, and to take chances with a small business with old friends.
I continue to use Zope, and have been using happily using Zope 3 since 2005. Zope 2 is now like a bad memory: a lot of good ideas, but a hazy implementation. Since switching most of our customers sites and applications to Zope 3 we've seen a tremendous amount of actual re-use while catering to customer specific requests.
My general interests in software development and engineering right now are rooted back in good old object oriented concepts. Namely, I'm interested in living environments full of small, collaborating objects - worlds where instances rule, and classes don't matter so much.