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David Heinemeier Hansson

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David Heinemeier Hansson, known by his initials DHH, is a Danish programmer, writer and entrepreneur born in Copenhagen in 1979. He created Ruby on Rails, the web application framework written in Ruby that shaped a generation of web development, and later created Omarchy, a Linux installation based on Arch Linux aimed at developers; he is a partner and chief technology officer at the software firm 37signals. He has also co-written several influential books on software and work practices, including Agile Web Development with Rails, Getting Real, Rework and Remote, and received the 2006 Jolt Award for Rails 1.0.

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Birth Year
1979 1
Birth Date
1979-10-15 1
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1. David Heinemeier Hansson (Wikidata)
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1979
    1979
  • Wikidata P166: O'Reilly Open Source Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): O'Reilly Open Source Award.
  • P569 (date of birth): 1979-10-15
    1979-10-15
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