When Philip Greenspun was born in the September month of 1963, no one would have ever imagined that he is going to be the jack of all trades and mastering them as well. Philip did all his graduation in Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received till his PhD there. His experience in software developing is mind-blowing. Since 20 years he's been serving a lot and lot of companies with his expertise in software developing. He is been experienced in setting up businesses and his companies have proved to be a success most of the times. He founded photo.net an online community to help the photographers.
He is one of the finest photographers and clients for his photography range from BBC to many well known companies and news channels and communities. He is been the master worker behind a lot of ecommerce sites. He divides his own life into many parts and pioneers in all. He has also released a free software toolkit called Arsdigita and this community encourages young web developers and technically strong students. He along with his co-founders has also set up a nonprofit organization, Arsdigita prize, which encourages young software developers.
It is also to be noted that he is a fine pedagogue enlightening many young minds. It is not surprising that Aaron Swartz is Greenspun's student and was profited from his organization. Philip Greenspun also learnt flying and he writes many articles about aviation too. He is recognized as a fine flight instructor.
This clever technologist is also a better writer. Besides writing blogs, he has written four computer science text books and travel books. He writes in many journals and magazines. Well known works of Greenspun include Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing and Software Engineering for Internet Applications. His expertise serves many companies in the field of advisory and corporate sectors. This expert is well known for his Tenth commandment among software engineers. Here it goes. "Any sufficiently complicated C or FORTRAN program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp". Do you understand now why we call him as the master of Software developing?
