Rasmus Lerdorf

Infobox Person
name = Rasmus Lerdorf

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birth_date = birth date and age|1968|11|22
birth_place = Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland.
occupation = Infrastructure Architect, Yahoo. [ [http://lerdorf.com/bio.php lerdorf.com ] ]
website = [http://lerdorf.com/ Personal Website]

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. Rasmus also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies. In 1993 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering. Since September 2002, he has been employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer.

During his keynote presentation at [http://2007.oscms-summit.org OSCMS 2007] Conference, Rasmus presented a security vulnerability in each of the projects represented at OSCMS this year. [ [http://2007.oscms-summit.org/node/487 Rasmus Lerdorf | OSCMS Summit 2007 ] ]

External links

* [http://www.lerdorf.com/ Personal home page]
* [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/php_experts/rasmus_php.html Do You PHP?] An introductory article by Rasmus Lerdorf about the past, the present and the future of PHP.
* [http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/85?x-t=book.view Oreilly.com:Online Catalog]

Notable Interviews

* [http://web.oreilly.com/news/lerdorf_0200.html On O'Reilly]
* [http://www.sitepoint.com/article/phps-creator-rasmus-lerdorf On sitepoint.com] - Where Rasmus answers some questions put together by the SitePoint community.
* [http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail58.html Audio Conversation] from itconversations.com
* [http://www.twit.tv/floss12 Interview] on the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Chris DiBona

References