Tag: respect-knuckles

RK: Igor Sysoev

At first I thought Lighttpd was the cat's meow. After talking with Andrei (who maintains PHP-FPM) I thought - if he got PHP-FPM right, he must know his stuff. He recommended I try…

RK: Wietse Venema

Thank god for Postfix. Simple to configure. Damn near secure. So much nicer than messing with sendmail or qmail. Not to mention numerous papers on security, and it looks like he's…

RK: Joe Hewitt

He's created one of the most useful tools in web development: Firebug. Also created the iUI (an iPhone-optimized UI) library. Of course Facebook has him on payroll now as well…

RK: Rasmus Lerdorf, Derick Rethans, Wez Furlong, Ilia Alshanetsky

The PHP team deserves all the kudos in the world. I love PHP, and for the most part PHP has loved me. Between the four of these guys, you've got a large portion of PHP, Xdebug…

RK: Jeremy Zawodny

Back when I was trying to tune MySQL more, I wound up on Jeremy's site a lot. Yahoo has him on payroll, and he probably gets paid for being a general technical genius with…

RK: Steven Grimm

Steven has spearheaded a lot of great work with the memcached project. Not only that, but his insights on the mailing list have been interesting to read. Steven and his team at…

RK: Brad Fitzpatrick

LiveJournal used to be the king. Nowadays with Facebook and Myspace it's moved down the totem pole. However, being king for a while did produce some cool stuff that Brad (and…

RK: Jan Kneschke

Jan must write C and Lua in his sleep. He's behind Lighttpd, MySQL Proxy, XCache and who knows what else. He seems to be working on multiple projects all the time and making…

RK: John Resig

One word: jQuery. John, thank you for solving all my JavaScript needs. Cross-browser support, a simple syntax, and all the plugins available have made anything that used to be…