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Rasmus Lerdorf
Creating PHP, the scripting language used to build dynamic websites.
PHP Tools · Apache contributions
- Born
- 22 November 1968
- Birthplace
- Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland
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Rasmus Lerdorf
Rasmus Lerdorf is a Danish-Canadian programmer who created the original PHP tools. The project developed into a widely used open-source language maintained by a much larger community.
Early life
Across countries
Moved from Greenland to Denmark, then to Canada with his family.
Engineering degree
Graduated from the University of Waterloo in systems design engineering in 1993.
Career
- 1994
Personal web tools
Created scripts to track visits to his online résumé.
- 1995
Public release
Released the source code that became PHP.
- 2002–2009
Yahoo
Worked on infrastructure architecture.
- 2012
Etsy
Joined the company after work with startups.
Contributions
PHP Tools
Made his early web scripts publicly available.
Apache contributions
Contributed to the open-source web-server project.
mSQL improvements
Added a LIMIT feature to the database system.
Beyond work
Open-source speaking
Regularly explains the history and practical use of PHP at developer conferences.
Parenthood
Described becoming a father in a 2002 interview—and abandoning ambitious plans for a connected crib as childcare took priority.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Official PHP history ↗Interview with Rasmus Lerdorf ↗Photo: William Stadtwald Demchick. CC BY-SA 4.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
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