Rasmus Lerdorf
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Rasmus Lerdorf
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| Born | 22 November 1968 Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland. |
| Alma mater | University of Waterloo |
| Occupation | Consultant |
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| http://lerdorf.com | |
Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 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.
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Early life and education
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. He contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and he added the LIMIT clause to the mSQL Database in 1995.[1][2]
Career
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. On February 22nd, 2012, he announced on Twitter that he had joined Etsy.[4]
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.[5]
Awards
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.[6]
References
- ^ "mod_info". Apache Reference. http://www.apacheref.com/ref/mod_info.html. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ Wendel, Ulf. "MaxDB & PHP - Ready for the Web!". Archived from the original on 2011-06-06. http://web.archive.org/web/20110606013605/http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/maxdb-php-ready-for-web.html. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ Kincaid, Jason (2010-04-27). "PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Joins Group Payments Startup WePay". TechCrunch. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/27/php-founder-rasmus-lerdorf-joins-group-payments-startup-wepay. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ Lerdorf, Rasmus (2012-02-22). "Excited to be joining...". Twitter. https://twitter.com/#!/rasmus/status/172360148726190080. Retrieved 2012-05-06.
- ^ "Rasmus Lerdorf's Presentation at the OSCMS Summit 2007". http://talks.php.net/show/oscms07/.
- ^ "2003 Young Innovators Under 35". Technology Review. 2003. http://www.technologyreview.com/tr35/?year=2003. Retrieved August 15, 2011.
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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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