David Heinemeier Hansson
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| David Heinemeier Hansson | |
 David Heinemeier Hansson.
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| Born | October 15, 1979 [1] Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Residence | Chicago, IL |
| Employer | 37signals[2] |
David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals.
In 1999 Hansson founded and built a Danish online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.
In 2005 he was recognized by Google and O'Reilly with the Hacker of the Year award for his creation of Ruby on Rails. After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School and receiving his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, he moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.
Hansson co-wrote Agile Web Development with Rails, a book on the topic, with Dave Thomas in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series.
Hansson appeared on the cover of the July 2006 issue of Linux Journal which included an interview with him in the feature story 'Opinions on Opinionated Software'. The same month Business 2.0 ranked him 34th among '50 people who matter now'.[3]
He is known for the brutal way in which he expresses his opinions, which has led critics to say that Hansson and 37signals are arrogant.[4][5][6] [7] [8]
[edit] References
- ^ "Turning Another Year (Loud Thinking)". October 2001. http://www.loudthinking.com/archives/00000056.html. Retrieved on October 2 2007.
- ^ 37signals weblog
- ^ "50 People who matter". July 2006. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/peoplewhomatter/index.html. Retrieved on July 10 2007.
- ^ "The Brash Boys at 37signals Will Tell You: Keep it Simple, Stupid". wired.com. 2008-02-25. http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-03/mf_signals?currentPage=all. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. "Critics had been saying that Rails wasn't versatile enough, that it couldn't handle large amounts of traffic, and that Hansson himself was arrogant. "Arrogant is usually something you hurl at somebody as an insult," Hansson said. "But when I actually looked it up — having an aggravated sense of one's own importance or abilities' — I thought, sure."
- ^ Donald Norman. "Why is 37signals so arrogant?". http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/why_is_37signals_so_1.html. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. "Yes, they are arrogant -- and proud of it(...)But the disdain they show for their customers is not just arrogance: it is selfishness. The solution is not ignorance of the needs of your customers. Their approach is both arrogant and selfish."
- ^ Tim Bray (2006-04-13). "JRuby performance benchmark". http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/04/13/RoR. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. "David Heinemeier Hansson is rude and arrogant. At least that’s what he claimed in his keynote, displaying the dictionary definition of “arrogant” and saying “Well, yes”; then the next slide said “Fuck You”. We’ll see;"
- ^ "Let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity". indicthreads.com. 2006-04-13. http://www.indicthreads.com/1422/let-java-retire-from-the-spotlight-of-web-applications-in-dignity/. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. "Just as Fox should have let The X-Files end with dignity around season 7, so should programmers let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity"
- ^ "Rails creator on Java and other 'junk'". infoworld.com. 2007-08-31. http://www.infoworld.com/d/developer-world/rails-creator-java-and-other-junk-017. Retrieved on 2009-05-06. "JRuby is a great way to open the conversation with enterprises by saying, You don't have to throw out all this "junk" you've accumulated over the years, Ruby is just an incremental piece you can put in. (...). The majority of Ruby on Rails users out there are people who go straight to Ruby on Rails, they don't have junk in the trunk."
[edit] External links
- Loud Thinking - Hansson's weblog
- 37signals
- Ruby on Rails
- Video of David Heinemeier Hansson presentation at Startup School
- David Heinemeier Hansson interview on the Inside the Net Podcast
- Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson interview on Hanselminutes Podcast
- David Heinemeier Hansson interview in Danish on Builder.dk Podcast
- Podcast interview with David Heinemeier Hansson on the Web 2.0 Show
- Ruby on Rails video David Heinemeier Hansson explains Ruby on Rails at the university of Roskilde, in 2004
- Keynote 2007 - RailsConf Europe 2007 - Berlin
- RailsConf Keynote on REST. July 9, 2006
- The Great Surplus - Keynote at RailsConf 2008 - Portland
- Living with legacy software - Keynote at RailsConf Europe 2008 - Berlin
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