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David Heinemeier Hansson

Biography

David is a partner in 37signals and the creator of the web-application framework Ruby on Rails. For his work on Rails, he won Best Hacker of the Year 2005 at OSCON from Google and O'Reilly. And in 2006, he accepted the Jolt award of product excellence for Rails 1.0.

Books

Agile Web Development with Rails Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
Second Edition December 2006
$39.95 USD

Agile Web Development with Rails Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
by Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson
July 2005
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Blog

David's blog posts are hosted at:
http://www.loudthinking.com/

Twitter me this

April 29 2008

If a tweet is uttered with no followers, does it make a peep? I'm getting going with Twitter on http://twitter.com/d2h. read more

Twitter me this

April 29 2008

If a tweet is uttered with no followers, does it make a peep? I'm getting going with Twitter on http://twitter.com/d2h. read more

The silent majority

April 22 2008

I had a great time on the West coast recently with stops in Santa Barbara and Palo Alto. What always surprises me at events like these is the huge number of people I meet that are doing cool things with Rails that I've never heard of. The kind of people… read more

The silent majority

April 22 2008

I had a great time on the West coast recently with stops in Santa Barbara and Palo Alto. What always surprises me at events like these is the huge number of people I meet that are doing cool things with Rails that I've never heard of. The kind of people… read more

Going to California

April 11 2008

I'll be speaking at an event put on by AppFolio at 6:30PM on the 17th, at Paul Graham's Startup School on the 19th at around noon, and finally meeting up with some people from the SD Forum Ruby conference on the eve of the 19th. If you're at any of… read more

Going to California

April 11 2008

I'll be speaking at an event put on by "AppFolio":http://www.appfolio.com/ at 6:30PM on the 17th, at "Paul Graham's Startup School":http://startupschool.org/ on the 19th at around noon, and finally meeting up with some people from the SD Forum Ruby conference on "the eve of the 19th":http://latenightrubyromance.eventbrite.com/. If you're at any of… read more

Git's avalanche

April 03 2008

I remember thinking how impressive the roll-out of Subversion was. They reached some magic point where the majority of the development world just flipped and most everyone who've previously been on CVS switched in what seemed like an overnight transition. Of course it didn't happen like that, but the perception… read more

The immediacy of PHP

April 03 2008

I've been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I've been used it for lately, it's absolutely perfect. I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the… read more

Git's avalanche

April 03 2008

I remember thinking how impressive the roll-out of Subversion was. They reached some magic point where the majority of the development world just flipped and most everyone who've previously been on CVS switched in what seemed like an overnight transition. Of course it didn't happen like that, but the perception… read more

The immediacy of PHP

April 03 2008

I've been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I've been used it for lately, it's absolutely perfect. I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the… read more

In it for the long haul

January 29 2008

Announcing RailsConf '08 today, I stopped to think about that by the time this conference rolls around, I will have been working on Ruby on Rails for five years. Wow. There are so many memories from this wild ride that it's at once both hard to fathom that it's been… read more

In it for the long haul

January 29 2008

Announcing RailsConf '08 today, I stopped to think about that by the time this conference rolls around, I will have been working on Ruby on Rails for five years. Wow. There are so many memories from this wild ride that it's at once both hard to fathom that it's been… read more

The deal with shared hosts

January 10 2008

Most Rails contributors are not big users of shared hosting and they tend to work on problems or enhancements that'll benefit their own usage of the framework. You don't have to have a degree in formal logic to deduce that work to improve life on shared hosting is not exactly… read more

The deal with shared hosts

January 10 2008

Most Rails contributors are not big users of shared hosting and they tend to work on problems or enhancements that'll benefit their own usage of the framework. You don't have to have a degree in formal logic to deduce that work to improve life on shared hosting is not exactly… read more

Cranking up the machinery

December 31 2007

So I finally had a few spare moments to work on the Loud Thinking machine again. Instead of going with one of the million packages out there, I decided to eat some dog food and just roll my own. Yes, yes, terribly inefficient from a productivity perspective, but I indulged… read more
David Heinemeier Hansson