About

I, Christiaan Kras, hide in the shadows of the internet under the nickname Htbaa. I was born and raised in Heerenveen, The Netherlands, and still live there. I’m a professionally employed (web)application programmer, responsible for the full package (design, develop, manage Linux servers etc.). Now part-time as I’m picking up school again (CS), but have worked for the same company full-time for over 4 years. With all that I do I can be considered a jack of all trades.

In my free time I enjoy playing guitar, playing games (on both Xbox Live and PSN I can be found as Htbaa, hit me up sometime), walking and training my dog and of course doing a bit of (web)application/game programming. Blogging has become rather fun as well. I’m also on Twitter! There are also more ways to contact me.

When supported at external websites I use OpenID to login. The only OpenID account I use is htbaa.myopenid.com.

Programming languages

Below is a list of programming languages I’ve worked or work with in no particular order. But of course you can understand why Perl is listed first . Aside from these languages I’m also interested in some others such as Haskell.

• Perl 5
• BlitzMax
• PHP5
• Javascript
• C++
• Lua
• DIV Games Studio (dead language)
• Fenix (dead language)

Other than that I have experience with managing both Linux desktops and servers. I also manage MySQL databases on a regular basis and have used SQLite occasionally as well.

Aside from databases and programming languages I consider myself rather fluent in HTML, XHTML and CSS.

Also available in my skill set is experience with a number of frameworks such as MooTools, Catalyst, Mojolicious, Zend Framework, Template-Toolkit and Smarty.

References

• LinkedIn (for my up-to-date résumé )
• GitHub (open source projects)
• CPAN
• Ohloh