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. Hansson co-wrote Agile Web Development with Rails with Dave Thomas in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series. He also co-wrote and Getting Real and Rework with Jason Fried. In 1999 Hansson founded and built a Danish online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.. After attracting the attention of Jason Fried by offering him help with php... coding, Hansson was hired by Fried to build a web-based project management tool, which ultimately became 37signals' Basecamp Software as a Service product. To aid the development process, Hansson used the then-obscure Ruby programming language to develop a custom web framework. The web framework he created was later released separately from the project management tool as the open source project Ruby On Rails. In 2005 he was recognized by Google and O'Reilly with the Hacker of the Year award for his creation of Ruby on Rails.
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| Birthdate: | October 15, 1979 |
| Birthplace: | Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Age: | 32 |
| Also known as: | DHH |