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David Heinemeier Hansson (known to the Ruby
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 community as DHH) is a Danish
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 programmer
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 and the creator of the popular Ruby on Rails
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 web development
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 framework
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 and the Instiki wiki
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. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm 37signals
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37signals is a privately held web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder.Since mid-2004, the...

.

In 1999 Hansson founded and built a Danish online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.

In 2005 he was recognized by Google
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 and O'Reilly
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 with the Hacker of the Year award for his creation of Ruby on Rails. After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School
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 and receiving his bachelor's degree
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 in Computer Science and Business Administration, he moved from Denmark
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 to Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
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 in November 2005.

Hansson co-wrote Agile Web Development with Rails with Dave Thomas
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 in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series.

Hansson appeared on the cover of the July 2006 issue of Linux Journal
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 which included an interview with him in the feature story 'Opinions on Opinionated Software'. In the same month, the now defunct Business 2.0
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 web magazine ranked him 34th among "50 people who matter now".

Personality

Hansson is known for the crude and brutal way he expresses his opinions, both online and in real life. One of the main criticisms of Hansson has been about his and his company's arrogance. Hansson accepts that he is arrogant.

Hansson is critical of enterprise software
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 saying it is "not about technology or best practices".
He created the web-development framework Ruby on Rails to free programmers from what he saw as repetitive coding inherent in platforms such as Java.
Hansson has expressed the view that women's low participation is not a result of what he called the "testosterone-powered alpha nature" of the programming world.
The debate stemmed from a presentation made by a speaker at GoGaRuCo (the Golden Gate Ruby Conference) that included sexually suggestive slides. Hansson has received criticism for his endorsement of behavior seen as radical and crude.

In July 2010 it was revealed that Heinemeier Hansson was the person that had commissioned the one-off Pagani Zonda HH

Recognition

  • 2005: Won Best Hacker of the Year 2005 at OSCON from Google and O'Reilly for the work on Rails.
  • 2006: Accepted the Jolt award of product excellence for Rails 1.0.

See also

  • Instiki
    Instiki
    Instiki is wiki software that runs on Ruby on Rails.- Features :* Regular expression search* Revisions* Export to HTML in a zip* RSS feeds* Multiple webs* Password-protected site* Reference tracker* Textile and Markdown formatting...

  • Ruby on Rails
    Ruby on Rails
    Ruby on Rails, often shortened to Rails or RoR, is an open source web application framework for the Ruby programming language.-History:...

  • 37signals
    37signals
    37signals is a privately held web application company based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was co-founded in 1999 by Jason Fried, Carlos Segura, and Ernest Kim as a web design company. Segura left in 2000 and Kim left in 2003, leaving Fried as the only remaining founder.Since mid-2004, the...

  • Agile Web Development with Rails

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