About the Author
Hubert Klein Ikkink was born in 1973 and lives in Tilburg, the Netherlands,
with his beautiful wife and gorgeous children. He is also known as mrhaki, which
is simply the initials of his name prepended by mr. He studied Information Systems
and Management at the Tilburg University. After nishing his studies he started to
work at a company which specialized in knowledge-based software. There he started
writing his rst Java software (yes, an applet!) in 1996. Over the years his focus
switched from applets, to servlets, to Java Enterprise Edition applications,
to Spring-based software.
In 2008 he wanted to have fun again when writing software. The larger projects
he was working on were more about writing conguration XML les, tuning
performance and less about real development in his eyes. So he started to look
around and noticed Groovy as a good language to learn about. He could still use
existing Java code, libraries, and his Groovy classes in Java. The learning curve isn’t
steep and to support his learning phase he wrote down interesting Groovy facts in
his blog with the title Groovy Goodness. He posts small articles with a lot of code
samples to understand how to use Groovy. Since November 2011 he is also a DZone
Most Valuable Blogger (MVB); DZone also posts his blog items on their site.
In 2010, 2011, and 2012 Hubert was invited to speak at Gr8Conf in Copenhagen,
Denmark. This is a very good conference with all the project leaders of Groovy and
Groovy-related projects. In November 2010 he presented a Gradle talk at the J-Fall
conference of the Dutch Java User Group. In November 2011 he presented about the
new features in Groovy 1.8 at the same conference. The conference is visited by 1000
Java developers and he got the chance to educate some of them about the greatness
of Gradle and Groovy.
Hubert works for a company called JDriven in the Netherlands. JDriven focuses
on technologies that simplify and improve development of enterprise applications.
Employees of JDriven have years of experience with Java and related technologies
and are all eager to learn about new technologies. Hubert works on projects using
Grails and Java combined with Groovy and Gradle.
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