 While working at the "Lawrence Journal-World" from 2002 to 2005, he and other web developers (Simon Willison, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Wilson Miner) created Django, an open source web application framework for Python.He and Kaplan-Moss served as the framework's Benevolent Dictators for Life until January 2014.The pair wrote "The Django Book", first published in 2007.