David Heinemeier Hansson

David Heinemeier Hansson

37signals

David Heinemeier Hansson is a programmer and evangelist of Less Software. He’s the creator of applications like Instiki, Basecamp, and Ta-da, and works with the open source community and design extraordinaires 37signals. Since its release in late July 2004, he’s also been leading the development of Ruby on Rails, a web application framework and environment for building real-world applications with joy and less code than most frameworks spend doing XML sit-ups.

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Location: Portland Ballroom 253
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Keynote
Location: Portland Ballroom
David Heinemeier Hansson (37signals), Jeremy Kemper (37signals), Michael Koziarski (Koziarski Software Limited), Rick Olson (ENTP)
Q&A with the core developers of Rails. Your questions; their answers. Read more.
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