Noah Gift

San Francisco, California

Consultant, Author, Python programmer, Film and Television expert

Areas of Expertise:

Python
OS X
Unix
Solaris
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Systems Administration
Python Web Development
Film and Television Production and Engineering
Directory Services
SNMP
Networking
Command Line Tools
Shell Scripting
Javascript
JQuery

Applescript
High Speed Storage
Virtualization
Avid
Final Cut Pro
Maya
Visual Effects
New Media Journalism
Infrastructure Architecture
iPhone Development (Native SDK)
Pylons
Asset Management Systems
consulting
speaking
programming
training
writing

Biography

Noah Gift is the co-author of Python For Unix and Linux System Administration by O'Reilly. He is an author, speaker, consultant, and community leader, writing for publications such as IBM Developerworks, Red Hat Magazine, O'Reilly, and MacTech, and Manning.

His consulting company is Giftcs, LLC and it provides solutions for Python Development and Systems Engineering. His personal website is Noah Gift. Noah is also the former organizer for PyAtl, which is the Python User Group for Atlanta, GA. He has given presentations at PyCon and PyAtl.

He has a Master's degree in CIS from Cal State Los Angeles, B.S. in Nutritional Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, is an Apple ACSA and LPI certified SysAdmin, as well as a Avid Certified Support Representative. He has worked at companies such as, Caltech, Disney Feature Animation, Sony Imageworks, and Turner Studios, and Weta Digital. You can see all of his film credits at IMBD.

As a teenager he was a freelance television editor for ABC Network News. While at Caltech he worked for the Nobel Prize Winning President as a Mac Expert, and at Disney and Sony worked on the first feature animated films for both companies: Chicken Little, and Surf's Up, respectively. Recently he has worked on Python development projects as diverse as writing an SNMP auto-discovery system, writing a Content Management System from scratch, creating a large scale Web 2.0/Social Networking Application in Django for Turner Studios, to writing iPhone applications that talk to Google App Engine. He is also involved in a new media journalism project, Spotlight on FOSS, that had a kickoff interview of Mark Shuttleworth.

He is currently co-authoring a book on Google App Engine and writing a large Google App Engine Exercise and Nutrition Tracking Application. Most recently, he worked as a Python programmer for Weta Digital in New Zealand, which has one of the world's largest render farms/super computer sites.

In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife Leah, and their son Liam, and playing and composing piano music. He is also into exercising religiously, including running in and training for marathons and ultramarathons. When he gets a chance, he likes to write open source software. He is also interested in Artificial Intelligence research and software development.

Books

Python for Unix and Linux System Administration
by Noah Gift , Jeremy Jones
August 2008
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

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Getting Started with the Google App Engine
Publish Date: May. 20, 2008Continuing the trend started with Amazon's Elastic Cloud (EC2), Google plans to make their vast resources available to developers who wish to deploy massively scalable applications on the Google Infrastructure. In this tutorial, you'll get a look into the APIs and database capabilities that Google is providing, and how to leverage them in a sample application. Discover the Power of Open Directory (Part 3)
Publish Date: Jul. 18, 2007In this final segment of our Open Directory series, Noah Gift introduces Manage Client for OS X (MCX) and shows how to use the OS X specific schema attributes for Mobility to synchronize laptops to a network profile and change Dock settings. Noah also demonstrates how Windows can use Open Directory for authentication and Home Directories. Discover the Power of Open Directory (Part 2)
Publish Date: Jun. 27, 2007Noah Gift shows how to set up a Mac with an NFS home directory using Open Directory, integrate an existing Linux NFS file server for a cross-platform home directory, and authenticate a Linux client into Open Directory. Using Python and AppleScript Together
Publish Date: May. 10, 2007In this hands-on article, Noah Gift introduces the major concepts behind using AppleScript with Python and provides some fun working examples.

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Spotlight on FOSS: An Interview with Mark Shuttleworth
Publish Date: Apr. 15, 2008

Ubuntu is about to release Hardy Heron, the newest Long Term Support version of this popular Linux distribution. To mark the occasion, we're launching a new video interview series, Spotlight on FOSS, and leading off by chatting by Mark Shuttleworth himself!

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