10 Years Anniversary of PHP and MySQL: A Retrospect

von John-Isaac (Zak) Greant (eZ systems), Rasmus Lerdorf (Yahoo! Inc.), Michael "Monty" Widenius (MySQL AB)

Donnerstag, 23.06.2005, Practical Linux Forum, 17:00-18:00 Uhr

Nearly a decade has passed since both MySQL and PHP were released on the 'Net. This open discussion with PHP inventor Rasmus Lerdorf and MySQL inventor Monty Widenius will focus on the early years of both projects - discussing how they started, what made them so popular and what strange things have happened along the way.

The session is moderated by Zak Greant and will end with a chance for the audience to ask Monty and Rasmus questions.

 

Über den Autor John-Isaac (Zak) Greant:

Zak Greant is a technical evangelist, author and programmer whose deep and constant love of Free Software and Open Source is turning him into a penguin. The only visible changes (so far) are a gradual accumulation of blubber, a loss of hair (which he hopes is the prelude to feather growth) and a growing preference for raw fish.

When not practicing how to waddle or wear a tuxedo, he helps businesses and Free/Open projects create and execute plans for their strategic, marketing, human resource, product, service, and information technology management activities.

To keep sane, he works as an editor on various cool Free/Open book projects, hand-crufts code for various Free/Open projects, beats on a guitar, plays D & D, and is learning to carve masks, boxes and totems in the Northwest Coast style.

 

Über den Autor Rasmus Lerdorf:

Born in Godhavn/Qeqertarsuaq on Disko Island off the coast of Greenland in 1968, Rasmus Lerdorf 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 is currently an infrastructure engineer at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California.

 

Über den Autor Michael "Monty" Widenius:

Michael "Monty" Widenius is the lead developer for the popular MySQL RDBMS project and is CTO of MySQL AB, a company that he co-founded to provide licensing, support, and other services for the MySQL RDBMS.

In a past life, Widenius worked on interesting projects like games coded in assembler, software for a single-card computer used by power companies, a multi-tasking OS for an 8-bit Z80-based computer, and a lot of data warehousing. He has worked in assembler, BASIC, C, C++, Commmon Lisp, shell and Perl, and some other less common languages.

Widenius lives in Helsinki, Finland and in his spare time acts as shepherd for a large flock of humming boxes and flickering lights.