Rasmus Lerdorf

Born in Godhavn/Qeqertarsuaq on Disco Island off the coast of Greenland in 1968. He has been dabbling with UNIX-based solutions since 1985. Known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL.

He tends to deny being a programmer, preferring to be seen as a techy adept at solving problems. If the solution requires a bit of coding and he can't trick somebody else into writing the code, he will reluctantly give in and write the code. According to Google he is a famous Dane currently living near San Francisco with his wife, Christine.

Rasmus Lerdorf's speech topic is "PHP - Scripting the Web"