David Heinemeier Hansson

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David Heinemeier Hansson

Hansson at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Born (1979-10-15) 15 October 1979[1]
Copenhagen, Denmark
Residence Benahavís
Occupation Programmer[2]
Race Car Driver
Employer 37signals[3]
Known for Ruby On Rails
Website
david.heinemeierhansson.com

David Heinemeier Hansson (born 15 October 1979; known to the Ruby and ALMS communities as DHH) 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 Getting Real, Rework, and Remote with Jason Fried.

Programming

In 1999, Hansson founded and built a Danish online gaming news website and community called Daily Rush, which he ran until 2001.[4]

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.[5]

After graduating from the Copenhagen Business School and receiving his bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Business Administration, he moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.

Opinions

Hansson appeared on the cover of the July 2006 issue of Linux Journal which included an interview with him in the feature story 'Opinions on Opinionated Software'.[6] In the same month, the now defunct Business 2.0 web magazine ranked him 34th among "50 people who matter now".[7]

Hansson is an outspoken character known for the crude and brutal way he expresses his opinions, both online and in real life. Hansson and his company have been accused of arrogance,[8][9][10] which he does not deny.[10] Hansson is critical of enterprise software saying it is "not about technology or best practices."[11] 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. [12]

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.[13] 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.[14]

Personal life

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 2012 -
Teams OAK Racing
Best finish 8th (2013)
Class wins 0

David Heinemeier Hansson lists photography and race car driving amongst his hobbies.[15] He took part in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans driving for OAK Racing.[16] He also drove a Morgan-Nissan P2 car for Conquest Racing in the American Le Mans Series, winning two races in the season. Heinemeier Hansson joined OAK Racing full-time in 2013, taking five 2nd-place finishes to finish 2nd in the Trophy for LMP2 Drivers.

In July 2010 it was revealed that Heinemeier Hansson was the person that had commissioned the one-off Pagani Zonda HH.[17]

24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
2012 France OAK Racing Belgium Bas Leinders
Belgium Maxime Martin		 Morgan LMP2-Nissan LMP2 341 14th 7th
2013 France OAK Racing France Olivier Pla
United Kingdom Alex Brundle		 Morgan LMP2-Nissan LMP2 328 8th 2nd

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

Year Entrant Class Car Engine Tyres 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Rank Points
2013 OAK Racing LMP2 Morgan LMP2 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 D SIL
2		 SPA
2		 LMS
2		 SÃO
6		 COA
6		 FUJ
3		 SHA
2		 BHR
2		 2nd 132.5

Recognition

  • 2005: Won Best Hacker of the Year 2005 at OSCON from Google and O'Reilly for the work on Rails.[18]
  • 2006: Accepted the Jolt award of product excellence for Rails 1.0.[18]
  • 2012: Named ALMS Rookie of the year.[19]

See also

References

  1. ↑ David Heinemeier Hansson, ed. (October 2001). "Turning Another Year (Loud Thinking)". Retrieved 2 October 2007. 
  2. ↑ The home screens of 37signals
  3. ↑ 37signals weblog
  4. ↑ Daily Rush
  5. ↑ "Google-O'Reilly Open Source Awards - Hall of Fame". Google Code. Retrieved 2010-09-03. "Best Hacker: David Heinemeier Hansson (Ruby on Rails and 37Signals)" 
  6. ↑ Linux Journal, ed. (July 2006). "Opinions on Opinionated Software". LinuxJournal. Retrieved May 29, 2013. 
  7. ↑ Business 2.0, ed. (July 2006). "50 People who matter". CNN. Retrieved July 10, 2007. 
  8. ↑ Donald Norman. "Why is 37signals so arrogant?". Retrieved 2009-05-06. "Yes, they are arrogant -- and proud of it(...)But the disdain they show for their customers is not just arrogance: it is selfishness. The solution is not ignorance of the needs of your customers. Their approach is both arrogant and selfish." 
  9. ↑ Tim Bray (2006-04-13). "JRuby performance benchmark". Retrieved 2009-05-06. "David Heinemeier Hansson is rude and arrogant. At least that's what he claimed in his keynote, displaying the dictionary definition of "arrogant" and saying "Well, yes"; then the next slide said "Fuck You". We'll see;" 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "The Brash Boys at 37signals Will Tell You: Keep it Simple, Stupid". wired.com. 25 February 2008. Retrieved 2009-05-06. "Critics had been saying that Rails wasn't versatile enough, that it couldn't handle large amounts of traffic, and that Hansson himself was arrogant. "Arrogant is usually something you hurl at somebody as an insult", Hansson said. "But when I actually looked it up — having an aggravated sense of one's own importance or abilities' — I thought, sure." 
  11. ↑ "Let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity". indicthreads.com. 2006-04-13. Retrieved 2009-05-06. "Just as Fox should have let The X-Files end with dignity around season 7, so should programmers let Java retire from the spotlight of web applications in dignity" 
  12. ↑ "Rails creator on Java and other 'junk'". infoworld.com. 2007-08-31. Retrieved 2009-05-06. "JRuby is a great way to open the conversation with enterprises by saying, You don't have to throw out all this "junk" you've accumulated over the years, Ruby is just an incremental piece you can put in. (...). The majority of Ruby on Rails users out there are people who go straight to Ruby on Rails, they don't have junk in the trunk." 
  13. ↑ David Heinemeier Hansson (2009-04-27). "Alpha male programmers aren't keeping women out". Retrieved 2009-09-03. "I just can't get into the argument that women are being kept out of programming because the male programmer is such a testosterone-powered alpha specimen of our species" 
  14. ↑ "Projects on the Move". Linux Magazine. August 2009. Retrieved 2009-09-03. "Rails developer David Heinemeier Hansson posted to Twitter, “I’d much rather we went with beautiful women for the filler stock art. Works in ads.” Heinemeier Hansson doesn’t seem to understand that very few people are likely to feel comfortable in a community where they are only expected to play the role of human advertising material. The insensitivity that Ruby VIPs demonstrate in the face of numerous, anonymous comments online helps illustrate one of the major reasons for the marginal participation of women at open source community events." 
  15. ↑ "DHH weblog". Retrieved 2012-07-02. 
  16. ↑ Mercier, Laurent (2012-04-18). "L'équipage de la Morgan 2012 LMP2 #35 affiche complet" [The crew of the #35 LMP2 2012 Morgan sold out]. Endurance-Info (in French) (Infomaniak Network SA). Retrieved 2012-04-18. 
  17. ↑ "Pagani Zonda HH". secretentourage.com. August 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-02. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 http://www.loudthinking.com/about.html
  19. ↑ http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-2012-rookies-of-the-year-david-heinemeier-hansson-alex-popow/

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