David Heinemeier Hansson

Not to be confused with David Hanson (computer scientist).
David Heinemeier Hansson

Hansson at the 2006 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference
Born (1979-10-15) 15 October 1979[1]
Copenhagen, Denmark
Residence Benahavís
Other names DHH
Occupation Programmer[2]
Employer Basecamp[3]
Known for Ruby on Rails
Website david.heinemeierhansson.com

David Heinemeier Hansson (born 15 October 1979; known to the Ruby and car racing 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 Basecamp (formerly 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. He released the framework separately from the project management tool in 2004 as the open source project Ruby on Rails. In 2005, Hansson 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, Hansson moved from Denmark to Chicago, Illinois, U.S. in November 2005.[6]

Personal life

24 Hours of Le Mans career
Participating years 2012 -
Teams Aston Martin Racing
Best finish 8th (2013)
Class wins 1

David Heinemeier Hansson lists photography and race car driving amongst his hobbies.[7] He took part in the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans driving for OAK Racing.[8] He also drove a Morgan-Nissan P2 car for Conquest Racing in the American Le Mans Series (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.

In July 2010 it was revealed that Heinemeier Hansson was the person that had commissioned the one-off Pagani Zonda HH supercar.[9] He also owns the one-off Koenigsegg Agera HH car.[10]

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
2014 United Kingdom Aston Martin Racing Denmark Kristian Poulsen
Denmark Nicki Thiim		 Aston Martin Vantage GTE GTE
Am		 334 17th 1st
2015 United States Extreme Speed Motorsports United States Scott Sharp
United Kingdom Ryan Dalziel		 Ligier JS P2-Honda LMP2 329 28th 10th

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

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. ↑ Basecamp.com
  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. ↑ Staff writer (March 9, 2014). "David Heinemeier Hansson: Basecamp, Remote and the next big thing". eTalks. Retrieved April 30, 2015.
  7. ↑ "DHH weblog". Retrieved 2012-07-02.
  8. ↑ 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.
  9. ↑ "Pagani Zonda HH". secretentourage.com. August 2010. Retrieved 2011-01-02.
  10. ↑ Gary Bonanni (Oct 7, 2014). "One-of-a-Kind Koenigsegg Agera HH Spotted". carbuzz.com. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
  11. 1 2 About David Heinemeier Hansson. Loudthinking.com. Retrieved on 2014-05-30.
  12. ↑ http://auto-racing.speedtv.com/article/alms-2012-rookies-of-the-year-david-heinemeier-hansson-alex-popow/

External links

Sporting positions
Preceded by
Jamie Campbell-Walter
Stuart Hall		 FIA Endurance Trophy for LMGTE Am Drivers
2014 with:
Kristian Poulsen 		Succeeded by
Aleksey Basov
Andrea Bertolini
Viktor Shaitar
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