Born 1970 in Hamburg. Graduated from Technical University of Berlin with a Diplom Informatiker degree (Master equivalent) in Computer Science. Managed in the 90's Germany's biggest IRCnet server irc.fu-berlin.de, and co-managed one of the world's largest FTP server ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de. Set up first public webserver in 1993. Co-founded 2002 Apache Friends and created the multi-platform Apache bundle XAMPP. In 2006, his third book, Das XAMPP-Handbuch, was published by Addison Wesley.
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