PHP FONDER RASMUS LERDOF LEFT HIS LONG-HELD POSITION AT YAHOO

According to Rasmus Lerdorf's twitter account, he left his long-held position at Yahoo. Being the fonder of the most popular programming language of current times,there is no reason behind this resign.

Lerdorf joined Yahoo in 2002 and has worked for the company as an engineer since. Lerdorf is most notable for creating the original PHP engine, and for being a notable open source developer, speaker and author. Lerdorf developed PHP in 1995 after building up a collection of C macros that he was using in web application development.

PHP was developed further and commercialized by Zend, but Lerdorf has maintained an ongoing involvement with the open source project. Lerdorf has worked at a number of companies since first developing PHP, but has spent a large part of his professional career with Yahoo and he had a strong association with the company.

He is one among the star engineer and developer who left Yahoo recent times.

• This is his blog: http://toys.lerdorf.com/
• Follow this legand on twitter: http://twitter.com/rasmus

It might be happy for others but hectic for Yahoo. 

Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Williams accord on net neutrality

    

In a letter to Federal Communications, along with 24 CEOs of major companies including the Facebook[Mark Zuckerberg] and Twitter [Evan Williams] have supported the initiative of net neutrality rules.

"We believe a process that results in common sense baseline rules is critical to ensuring that the Internet remains a key engine of economic growth, innovation, and global competitiveness," the CEOs wrote under the auspices of the Open Internet Coalition to Julius Genachowski, Chairman, FCC, reports PC World.

List of CEO's along with Mark and Evan are,

• John Donahoe, CEO, eBay.
• Steve Chan, Founder, YouTube. 
• Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com.
  
• Jay Adelson, Digg.
• Dan Nye,LinkedIn.
  
• David Ulevitch,OpenDNS.
• Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corporation.
  
• Howard Stringer, Sony Electronics,
  
• Josh Silverman, Skype.
  
• Stewart Butterfield, Flickr.
• Also, Google CEO Eric Schmidt who has long supported net neutrality signed the letter. 

Other companies that signed the letter are,

1. Zynga, 
2. Vuze, 
3. Cbeyond, 
4. Craigslist, 
5. EchoStar Corporation, 
6. XO Communications, 
7. Expedia, IAC, 
8. One Communications, 
9. and TiVo.

"An open Internet fuels a competitive and efficient marketplace, where consumers make the ultimate choices about which products succeed and which fail. This allows businesses of all sizes, from the smallest startup to the larger corporations, to compete, yielding maximum economic growth and opportunity," the executives wrote.

The FCC is expected to introduce the formal rules regarding the net neutrality at its October meeting. 

Net neutrality is the concept that everyone should have equal access to the internet.

The executives said that the openness of the internet has "fueled an unprecedented era of economic growth and creativity" and that these rules will help to protect that.