Interview with Leah Culver: The Making of Pownce - I’m Mike
http://immike.net/blog/2007/07/06/interview-with-leah-culver-the-making-of-pownce
"After several Java (J2EE) development jobs Leah Culver wanted to learn a new programming language. Following a friend’s suggestion, she began “playing around” with a Python Web framework called Django last January."