My name is Hubert Klein Ikkink, but I am also known as mrhaki. I am born in 1973 and live
in Tilburg, The Netherlands, with my beautiful wife and two gorgeous children.
I studied Information Systems and Management at the Tilburg University. After finishing
my study I started to work at a company specialized in knowledge based software. There
I started writing my first Java software (yes, an applet!) in 1996. During the years
my focus switched from applets, to servlets, to Java Enterprise Edition, to Spring based software.
In 2008 I wanted to have fun again when writing software. The larger projects I was working on
were more about writing configuration XML files, tuning performance and less about real
development in my eyes. So I started to look around and noticed Groovy as a very good language
to learn about. I could still use existing Java code and libraries and can use my Groovy
classes in Java. The learning curve isn't steep and to support my learning phase I wrote down
interesting Groovy facts in my blog with the title
Groovy Goodness. I post small articles with a lot of code samples to understand
how to use Groovy. And since November 2011 I am also a DZone Most Valuable Blogger (MVB),
where DZone also posts my blog items on their site.
In 2010 and 2011 I was invited to speak at Gr8Conf in Copenhagen, Denmark.
This is very good conference with all project leaders of Groovy and Groovy-related
projects. So it was a great honor to be invited and to speak at the conference about my
Groovy Goodness posts.
In november 2010 I presented a Gradle talk at the J-Fall conference of the Dutch Java User Group.
And in november 2011 I presented about the new features in Groovy 1.8 at the same conference.
The conference is visited by 1000 Java developers and I got the chance to educate some of them
about the greatness of Gradle and Groovy.
I work at the great IT company
JDriven.
Here I work on projects with Groovy & Grails, Gradle and Spring.
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