Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf | |
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| Born | November 22, 1968 |
| Occupation | Unemployed [1] |
| Website | Personal Website |
Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship 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.
He has contributed to the Apache HTTP Server [2] and he also came up with the LIMIT clause [3] and added it to the mSQL Database in 1995. It is the origin of the LIMIT clauses found in MySQL and PostgreSQL.
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.[4]
He is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world.
External links
Notable Interviews
- On O'Reilly
- On sitepoint.com- Where Rasmus answers some questions put together by the SitePoint community.
- Simple is Hard - Presentation from Drupalcon 2008
- Audio Conversation from itconversations.com
- Interview on the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Chris DiBona
References
- ^ Feels a bit odd to be unem ...:, 8:55 AM Nov 9th, 2009, Rasmus Lerdorf, Twitter
- ^ http://www.apacheref.com/ref/mod_info.html
- ^ http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/maxdb-php-ready-for-web.html
- ^ Rasmus Lerdorf's Presentation at the OSCMS Summit 2007
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