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David Heinemeier Hansson is a
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, and the creator of the popular
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and the Instiki wiki. He is also a partner at the web-based software development firm
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. Hansson co-wrote ''Agile Web Development with Rails'' with
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in 2005 as part of The Facets of Ruby Series. He also co-wrote ''Getting Real'', ''Rework'', ''Remote'', and ''It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work'' 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. 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 Project management is the process of leading the work of a team to achieve all project goals within the given constraints. This information is usually described in project documentation, created at the beginning of the development process. Th ...
tool, which ultimately became 37signals'
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product. To aid the development process, Hansson used the then-relatively obscure Ruby programming language to develop a custom
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. He released the framework separately from the project management tool in 2004 as the
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project
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. In 2005, Hansson was recognized by
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and
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with the "Hacker of the Year" award for his creation of
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. After graduating from the
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and receiving his
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in Computer Science and Business Administration, Hansson moved from
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in November 2005.


Personal life

David Heinemeier Hansson lists photography and race car driving amongst his many hobbies. He took part in the
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driving for
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. He also drove a Morgan-Nissan P2 car for
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in the
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(ALMS), 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. During the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans post-race technical checks, certain irregularities were detected on the Vaillante Rebellion team's #13 Oreca 07-Gibson, resulting in the car's disqualification. In July 2010 it was revealed that Heinemeier Hansson was the person that had commissioned the one-off Pagani Zonda HH supercar. He also commissioned the
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HH, which was sold in 2022 to Houston Crosta, a YouTube video creator in Las Vegas. Heinemeier Hansson also purchased an
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.


24 Hours of Le Mans results


Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results


Complete European Le Mans Series results

(Races in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) * Season still in progress.


WeatherTech SportsCar Championship results

(Races in bold indicate pole position, Results are overall/class) Points only counted towards the Michelin Endurance Cup, and not the overall LMP2 Championship.


Recognition

*2005: Won Best Hacker of the Year 2005 at OSCON from
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and
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for the work on Rails.About David Heinemeier Hansson
. Loudthinking.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-30.
*2006: Accepted the
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of product excellence for Rails 1.0. *2012: Named
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Rookie of the year.


References


External links


Loud Thinking
- Hansson's weblog
37signals

Ruby on Rails

Video of David Heinemeier Hansson presentation at Startup School

David Heinemeier Hansson - The Pareto Principle and Stoic Philosophy
on Developer on Fire
David Heinemeier Hansson interview
on the Inside the Net Podcast
Martin Fowler and David Heinemeier Hansson interview
on Hanselminutes Podcast
David Heinemeier Hansson interview in Danish
on Builder.dk Podcast
Podcast interview with David Heinemeier Hansson
on the Web 2.0 Show
Ruby on Rails video
David Heinemeier Hansson explains Ruby on Rails at the university of Roskilde, in 2004
Keynote 2007 - RailsConf Europe 2007 - Berlin

RailsConf Keynote
on REST. July 9, 2006
The Great Surplus - Keynote at RailsConf 2008 - Portland

Living with legacy software - Keynote at RailsConf Europe 2008 - Berlin

FLOSS Weekly podcast 79
and it


Podcast interview with David Heinemeier Hansson
on This Developer's Life
Podcast interview with David Heinemeier Hansson on the alphalist CTO podcast
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