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Dries turns 30 today!

Submitted by Khalid on Wed, 2008/11/19 - 00:10

Ever wondered why the weird date used for HTTP headers in Drupal? Specifically, did you ever check the Expires: header in Drupal?

You may have stumbled on it while inspecting header data using wget or FireFox tamper data. Or you were simply browsing Drupal's source code in bootstrap.inc, and saw this?

header("Expires: Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT");

Well, that magical date is today, and it is Dries' birthday. So he turns 30 years old today!

You can go on his site, and send him a congratulations message.

 

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Matt Asay

Submitted by Khalid on Wed, 2008/11/19 - 23:14.

Matt Asay says it well at The Open Road:

Dries is a very unassuming, interesting, and likable person.

It's even more impressive to me that Dries wrote Drupal in his spare time as a PhD student in Belgium. Bonus points for doing it in PHP, despite the fact that most of his academic work has related to Java.

Actually, the real measure of Dries' success is that he remains a good person despite the success.

Well, add to that that Dries nurtured a community around Drupal, that in turn added to Drupal what he or a small team could never have done alone.

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Dries is gaining

Submitted by Inacall (not verified) on Thu, 2009/07/30 - 15:05.

Dries is gaining popularity,uniquely.it is my constant and sanity saving companion.

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