Ask Bjørn Hansen
Encyclopedia
Ask Bjørn Hansen, aka Ask Bjoern Hansen, born June 9, 1977, is a programmer best known in the Perl
community. He is known for maintaining perl.org, the NTP pool
as well as developing Qpsmtpd
. He is a member emeritus of the Apache Software Foundation
.
Along with Erron Silverstein and Emad Fanous, he is a co-founder of YellowBot, a Local search
site.
Perl
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language. Perl was originally developed by Larry Wall in 1987 as a general-purpose Unix scripting language to make report processing easier. Since then, it has undergone many changes and revisions and become widely popular...
community. He is known for maintaining perl.org, the NTP pool
NTP pool
The NTP pool is a dynamic collection of networked computers that volunteer to provide highly accurate time via the Network Time Protocol to clients worldwide. The machines that are "in the pool" are part of the pool.ntp.org domain as well as of several subdomains divided by geographical zone and...
as well as developing Qpsmtpd
Qpsmtpd
qpsmtpd is an SMTP daemon written in Perl. It was originally designed to be a drop-in replacement for qmail-smtpd, the SMTP component of qmail, and it is now also compatible with Postfix, Exim, sendmail and virtually any software that "speaks SMTP"...
. He is a member emeritus of the Apache Software Foundation
Apache Software Foundation
The Apache Software Foundation is a non-profit corporation to support Apache software projects, including the Apache HTTP Server. The ASF was formed from the Apache Group and incorporated in Delaware, U.S., in June 1999.The Apache Software Foundation is a decentralized community of developers...
.
Along with Erron Silverstein and Emad Fanous, he is a co-founder of YellowBot, a Local search
Local search
Local search may refer to:* Local search , a method for problem solving in optimization* Local search , web searching for web sites relevant to a given place...
site.