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 OSCMS 2007 Conference, Rasmus presented a security vulnerability in each of the projects represented at OSCMS this year.^[1]

Rasmus Lerdorf is talking about security with Joomla! Developers at OSCMS 2007 Conference.

External links

• Personal home page
• Do You PHP? An introductory article by Rasmus Lerdorf about the past, the present and the future of PHP.
• Oreilly.com:Online Catalog

Notable Interviews

• On O'Reilly
• On sitepoint.com- Where Rasmus answers some questions put together by the SitePoint community.
• Audio Conversation from itconversations.com
• Interview on the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Chris DiBona

References

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