Rasmus Lerdorf (born November 22, 1968 in Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland) is a Danish-Canadianprogrammer and the author of the first version of the PHP web programming language. Rasmus also participated in the development of the following versions of PHP led by Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski, who later founded Zend Technologies. In 1993 he graduated from the University of Waterloo with a BASc in Systems Design Engineering. Since September 2002, he has been employed by Yahoo! Inc. as an Infrastructure Architecture Engineer. November 22 is the 326th day (327th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Qeqertarsuatsiaq, Greenland Qeqertarsuaq or Godhavn is a port on the south coast of Qeqertarsuatsiaq, an island on the west coast of Greenland. ... A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, i. ... PHP is a scripted programming language that can be used to create websites. ... Andi Gutmans is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... Zeev Suraski is an Israeli programmer, PHP developer and co-founder of Zend Technologies. ... Zend Technologies Ltd. ... The University of Waterloo, also known as UW or simply Waterloo, is a medium-sized research-intensive public university in the city of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. ... Systems engineering (or systems design engineering) is an interdisciplinary approach and means for enabling the realization and deployment of successful systems. ... For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Yahoo! Inc. ...
Those are the words that RasmusLerdorf, the creator of PHP, said to kick off his keynote at the phpworks conference under way here.
Lerdorf advised PHP developers that nothing that comes across the wire is to be trusted.
Lerdorf noted that rich Web applications, such as those that Yahoo deploys, need to have excellent response times and need to be able to handle a high number of users.
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