Residence Slagelse, Denmark Employer Self-employed Nationality Danish Name Poul-Henning Kamp | Other names phk Role Developer Occupation Programmer | |
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Born 20 January 1966 (age 58) ( 1966-01-20 ) | ||
E valg i danmark hvordan 2012 interview poul henning kamp
Poul-Henning Kamp (born 1966) is a Danish computer software developer known for work on various projects. He currently resides in Slagelse, Denmark.
Contents
- E valg i danmark hvordan 2012 interview poul henning kamp
- Varnish software interview poul henning kamp
- Involvement in the FreeBSD project
- Most notable projects
- Dispute with D Link
- Other
- Publications
- References
Varnish software interview poul henning kamp
Involvement in the FreeBSD project
Poul-Henning Kamp has been committing to the FreeBSD project for most of its duration. He is responsible for the widely used MD5crypt implementation of the MD5 password hash algorithm, a vast quantity of systems code including the FreeBSD GEOM storage layer, GBDE cryptographic storage transform, part of the UFS2 file system implementation, FreeBSD Jails, malloc library, and the NTP timecounters code.
Most notable projects
He is the lead architect and developer for the open source Varnish cache project, an HTTP accelerator and Ntimed, an NTP daemon meant to replace ntpd.
Dispute with D-Link
In 2006, Kamp had a dispute with electronics manufacturer D-Link in which he claimed they were committing NTP vandalism by embedding the IP address of his NTP servers in their routers. The dispute was resolved on 27 April 2006.
Other
A post by Poul-Henning on the FreeBSD mailing lists is responsible for the popularization of the term bike shed discussion, and the derived term bikeshedding, to describe Parkinson's law of triviality in open source projects - when the amount of discussion that a subject receives is inversely proportional to its importance.
Poul-Henning Kamp is known for his preference of a Beerware license to the GNU General Public License (GPL).
Publications
Poul-Henning Kamp has published a substantial number of articles over the years in publications like Communications of the ACM and ACM Queue mostly on the topics of computing and time keeping. A selection of publications: