David Heinemeier Hansson
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| David Heinemeier Hansson | |
 David Heinemeier Hansson.
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| Born | October 15, 1979 [1] Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Residence | Chicago, IL |
| Employer | 37signals[2] |
David Heinemeier Hansson is a Danish programmer and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails web development framework and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals.
In 1999 David founded and built a Danish online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.
In 2005 he was recognized by Google and O'Reilly with the Hacker of the Year award for his creation of Ruby on Rails. After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School and receiving his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, he moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.
David co-wrote Agile Web Development with Rails, a book on the topic, with Dave Thomas in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series.
David appeared on the cover of the July 2006 issue of Linux Journal which included an interview with him in the feature story 'Opinions on Opinionated Software'. The same month Business 2.0 ranked him 34th among '50 people who matter now'.[3]
[edit] External links
- Loud Thinking - Hansson's weblog
- 37signals
- Ruby on Rails
- Video of David Heinemeier Hansson presentation at Startup School
- David Heinemeier Hansson interview on the Inside the Net Podcast
- Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson interview on Hanselminutes Podcast
- David Heinemeier Hansson interview in Danish on Builder.dk Podcast
- Podcast interview with David Heinemeier Hansson on the Web 2.0 Show
- Ruby on Rails video David Heinemeier Hansson explains Ruby on Rails at the university of Roskilde, in 2004
- Keynote 2007 - RailsConf Europe 2007 - Berlin
- RailsConf Keynote on REST. July 09th, 2006
- The Great Surplus - Keynote at RailsConf 2008 - Portland
- Living with legacy software - Keynote at RailsConf Europe 2008 - Berlin
[edit] References
- ^ "Turning Another Year (Loud Thinking)". October 2001. http://www.loudthinking.com/archives/00000056.html. Retrieved on October 2 2007.
- ^ 37signals weblog
- ^ "50 People who matter". July 2006. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/peoplewhomatter/index.html. Retrieved on July 10 2007.
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