Michael M Carter (Orbited) bio
Based in Los Angeles, Michael Carter has been developing Web-based applications for nine years. He is currently the principal software architect at Brand Up (www.brand-up.com), an LA area-based Internet and technology marketing firm, where he uses his language of choice, Python, in every project. Michael is the creator and lead developer of Orbited (www.orbited.com), a scalable cross-language and cross-platform distributed Comet (HTTP Push) Server written in Python. He has been working on Comet-based problems for two years and is an author for the Comet Daily (www.cometdaily.com) technical publication on Comet. HE also writes for the Orbited Blog (www.orbited.org/blog).