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David Brent Baszucki [1] (/ b ə ˈ z uː k i /; born January 20, 1963), also known by his former Roblox username builderman, is a Canadian-born American entrepreneur, engineer, and software developer. He is best known as the co-founder and CEO of Roblox Corporation.
Joseph J. Allaire (born 1969), [1] better known professionally as J. J. Allaire, is an American-born software engineer and Internet entrepreneur.He created the ColdFusion programming language and web application server, [2] [3] [4] founded Allaire Corporation, OnFolio, [5] FitNow, [6] and RStudio, and created LoseIt! and Windows Live Writer.
Former Roblox headquarters, now occupied by Guidewire Software. Roblox Corporation (/ ˈ r oʊ b l ɒ k s / ROH-bloks) is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California. Founded in 2004 by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, the company is the developer of Roblox, which was released in 2006.
Roblox Studio is the platforms game engine [26] and game development software. [27] [28] The engine and all games made on Roblox predominantly uses Luau, [29] a dialect of the Lua 5.1 programming language. [30] Since November 2021, the programming language has been open sourced under the MIT License.
The Brazilian public holiday of Dia de Finados, Dia dos Mortos or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Portuguese: "Day of the Dead" or "Day of the Faithful Deceased") is celebrated on November 2. Similar to other Day of the Dead celebrations, people go to cemeteries and churches with flowers and candles and offer prayers. The celebration is intended as a ...
In June 2018, Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion (~$8.96 billion in 2023) in an all-stock deal. [17] [3] At the time, GitHub was the world's largest host service for software code. [10] In addition to GitHub, Wanstrath created the job queue program Resque, [6] [18] the Mustache templating language, [19] and the Atom text editor.
Phillip Jeffrey Hyett (born August 10, 1983) is an American software developer, technology entrepreneur, racing driver,and a co-founder of GitHub, an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git, which he created with Tom Preston-Werner and Chris Wanstrath in 2008.
He resigned from GitHub in 2014 when an internal investigation concluded that he and his wife harassed an employee. [4] Preston-Werner is also the creator of the avatar service Gravatar, [5] the TOML configuration file format, [6] the static site generator software Jekyll, [7] [8] and the Semantic Versioning Specification (SemVer). [9]