Rael Dornfest

American computer programmer and author

Rael Dornfest is an American computer programmer and author. He was a technical fellow and CTO of Charity: Water, and was previously an engineer at Twitter. He was founder and chief executive officer of Values of N, creator of "I Want Sandy" and "Stikkit: Little Yellow Notes that Think." Previously, he was chief technology officer at O'Reilly Media. He began working for Twitter after they bought the assets of his company Values of N.^[1]

He led the RSS-DEV Working Group, which authored RSS 1.0 and is the author of Blosxom, a lightweight Perl-based publishing system.^[2]

He was series editor of O'Reilly's Hacks series, and has coauthored a number of books including Google Hacks (ISBN 0-596-00447-8), Mac OS X Panther Hacks (ISBN 0-596-00718-3), and Google: The Missing Manual (ISBN 0-596-00613-6).

References

^ Duryee, Tricia (2008-11-24). "Twitter Buys Start-up's Assets; Hires Founder Rael Dornfest". MocoNews.net. PaidContent.org. Retrieved 2010-10-10.
^ Lerner, Reuven M. (2004-05-01). "At the Forge - Blosxom". Linux Journal. Retrieved 2010-10-10.

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Rael Dornfest - Author bio at O'Reilly
Hack Google - Article by Dornfest for TechTV
Rules for Remixing (IT Conversations), a recording of a presentation at the 2005 O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-03-03)