"This is your silly web browser doing that. The file is correctly named." -- Rasmus Lerdorf
developers at OSCMS 2007 Conference.]]Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968, in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish programmer with Canadian citizenship and is most notable as the creator of the PHP programming language. He authored the first two versions. Lerdorf also participated in the development of later versions of PHP led by a group of developers including Jim Winstead (who later created blo.gs), Stig Bakken, Shane Caraveo, Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski.
He has contributed to the Apache HTTP Server and he also added the LIMIT clause to the mSQL Database in 1995.
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. From September 2002 to November 6, 2009, he was employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer. In 2010, he joined WePay.Com in order to develop their API.
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.
Interviews
On O'Reilly
On sitepoint.com- Where Rasmus answers some questions put together by the SitePoint community.
Simple is Hard - Presentation from Drupalcon 2008
Audio Conversation from itconversations.com
Interview on the FLOSS Weekly podcast with Leo Laporte and Chris DiBona
"The file is a gzipped tar file. Your browser is playing tricks with you and trying to be smart.""When the world becomes standard, I will start caring about standards."