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A aficionado on the Python programming language, Functional programming, XML and miscellaneous other programming and computer science topics. He writes two columns for IBM's developerWorks site: Charming Python (http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_cp.html) and XML Matters (http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_xm.html), and individual articles on other topics.
David also writes for Intel Developer Services, O'Reilly ONLamp, and other online publications, and is the principle author and maintainer of the public domain Python package Gnosis Utilities (http://gnosis.cx/download/gnosis). In a former life, he was an academic philosopher who wrote about funny Postmodernist ideas.
Be sure to scope out his Ramblings on esoteric and flatfooted programming topics (http://gnosis.cx/publish/tech_index_dw.html). You never know what you'll run into there: a couple papers on Metaclass programming in Python, Multiple dispatch, papers on cryptology, a Haskell programming language tutorial, etc.
Author of the free-as-in-beer online book Text Processing in Python (http://gnosis.cx/TPiP/) (ISBN 0321112547, printed version published by Addison Wesley).
Also of interest, several papers (http://gnosis.cx/voting/) on Open Source Voting Software (http://openvoting.org/).
Visit his Gnosis Software (http://gnosis.cx/publish/) website for almost all of his articles. Here on Wikipedia (and other places), David is known as
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