Rasmus Lerdorf
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| Born | November 22, 1968 |
| Occupation | consultant |
| Website | Professional Home Page |
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 scripting 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 [1] and he also added the LIMIT clause [2] to the mSQL Database in 1995.
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 6, 2009, he was employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer. In 2010, he joined WePay in order to develop their API.[3] As of 2011, he is a roving consultant for startups.
Lerdorf is a frequent speaker at Open Source conferences around the world. During his keynote presentation at OSCMS 2007, he presented a security vulnerability in each of the projects represented at the conference that year.[4]
In 2003, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.[5]
References
- ^ http://www.apacheref.com/ref/mod_info.html
- ^ http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/maxdb-php-ready-for-web.html
- ^ http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/php-founder-rasmus-lerdorf-joins-group-payments-startup-wepay
- ^ Rasmus Lerdorf's Presentation at the OSCMS Summit 2007
- ^ "2003 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
External links
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
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