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Rasmus Lerdorf
Born (1968-11-22) November 22, 1968 (age 55)
Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland.
Occupation(s)Infrastructure Architect, Yahoo.[1]
WebsitePersonal Website
Rasmus Lerdorf is talking about security with Joomla! Developers at OSCMS 2007 Conference.

Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Greenlandic programmer and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski. Andi and Zeev later founded Zend Technologies.

He graduated from King City Secondary School in 1988, and in 1993 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering. From September 2002 to November 6th 2009, he had been employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer.

During his keynote presentation at OSCMS 2007 Conference, Lerdorf presented a security vulnerability in each of the projects represented at OSCMS that year.[2]

He is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world.

On Oct. 15, 2009 he was invited as a guest speaker during the CSC301 course in the University of Toronto and enthralled the audience with his inspiring experiences. He enlightened the awed audience on how he was motivated to define the global variable in php as "GLOBAL" as he found a long-lasting mistake on his internship with a source code that misused global variable syntax. He suggested students to work as hard as possible for the first three weeks of their new job to give themselves the opportunity to have a LOT of free time after the initial struggle.

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  1. ^ lerdorf.com
  2. ^ Rasmus Lerdorf's Presentation at the OSCMS Summit 2007

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