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Qeqertarsuaq (prev. Godhavn), Greenland, Denmark>Kingdom of Denmarkdate=May 2021}} Engineer at Etsy| alma mater = University of Waterloo| website = {{official URL}}}}File:RasmuswJGang.jpg|thumb|right|Lerdorf talks about security with Joomla! developers at OSCMS 2007 Conference.]]Rasmus Lerdorf (born 22 November 1968) is a Danish-CanadianTWEET, rasmus, 802660719057473536, 26 November 2016, I am a Danish citizen again after losing it becoming Canadian and DK now allowing dualTak @dalgaard_dw for alt du gør for udenlandsdanskere, programmer. He co-authored and inspired the PHP scripting language, authoring the first two versions of the language and participating in the development of later versions led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans, and Zeev Suraski. He continues to contribute to the project.

Early life and education

Lerdorf was born on Disko Island in Greenland and moved to Denmark in his early years. Lerdorf's family moved to Canada from Denmark in 1980, and later moved to King City, Ontario in 1983.WEB,weblink Rasmus Lerdorf, K.C.S.S. Alumni Association, 21 February 2013, 29 October 2013,weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20131029200257weblink">weblink dead, 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 DBMS. A variant of this LIMIT clause had already been around for a decade in mainframe relational database management systems (like Oracle Rdb running on VMS, formerly from Digital Equipment Corporation), but apparently it had not yet been picked up by the emerging PC-based databases. It was later adapted by several other SQL-compatible DBMS.WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20010222185341weblink">weblink dead, 22 February 2001, mod_info, Apache Reference, 6 May 2012, WEB,weblinkweblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20110606013605weblink">weblink 6 June 2011, MaxDB & PHP - Ready for the Web!, Ulf, Wendel, 6 May 2012, He released the first version of PHP in 1995.WEB,weblink Announce: Personal Home Page Tools (PHP Tools), Google Groups, 8 July 1995, 24 September 2022,

Career

From September 2002 to November 2009 Lerdorf was employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer. In 2010, he joined WePay in order to develop their application programming interface.NEWS, Jason, Kincaid,weblink PHP Founder Rasmus Lerdorf Joins Group Payments Startup WePay, TechCrunch, 27 April 2010, 6 May 2012, Throughout 2011 he was a roving consultant for startups. On 22 February 2012 he announced on Twitter that he had joined Etsy.WEB,weblink Excited to be joining..., Rasmus, Lerdorf, Twitter, 22 February 2012, 6 May 2012, In July 2013 Lerdorf joined Jelastic as a senior advisor to help them with the creation of new technology.WEB, The Creator Of PHP Shows Jelastic Support, As Advisor,weblink Cloud Tweaks, 2 July 2013, 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.WEB,weblink Rasmus Lerdorf Presentation at the OSCMS Summit 2007, Lerdorf also appeared at the WeAreDevelopers Conferences 2017 and 2019,WEB,weblink WeAreDevelopers Conference 2019 program, making a speech on the history of PHP, the new PHP 7 release in 2017, and the 25 years of PHP.Archived at Ghostarchive{{cbignore}} and the weblink" title="web.archive.org/web/20180202221313weblink">Wayback Machine{{cbignore}}: WEB,weblink PHP in 2017 - Rasmus Lerdorf @ WeAreDevelopers Conference 2017, YouTube, {{cbignore}}

Award

In 2003, Lerdorf was named in the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.WEB,weblink 2003 Young Innovators Under 35, Technology Review, 2003, 15 August 2011,

See also

• List of University of Waterloo people

References

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External links

• {{official website}}
• Rasmus Lerdorf at O'Reilly Media

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