Hi! I'm Niels

About me

Hi! My name is Niels Groot Obbink (aka That Guy), 22 years old, living in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam), The Netherlands. I'm a crazy guy with too much interests and not enough time; I like to play a video game or two, hang out with my friends, play guitar, build websites, bake cookies, listen to good music and swim. Random fun fact: I mostly listen to (hard)rock and metal!

I have a strong knowledge of client side webtechnologies like Javascript, HTML and CSS. My server-side knowledge is mainly PHP, which in combination with SQL make great dynamic (database-driven) websites. I'm no stranger to XML, although I prefer JSON most of the time. I also have experience with Java, C, Assembler and Perl.

About this website

This site is a showcase for the things I'd like to share with the world, like scripts and webdevelopment-related articles. You can also find my favorite links and contact info here.

Some time ago I build this website from scratch (again) using gEdit and GIMP on Ubuntu. The style - 'cloud' - is from an awesome image I found years ago at robot frog. The robot frog website has disappeared (wayback archive); credit to the original author.

I did used some other stuff from other people. Icons & smileys are from the Fugue icon set and the script highlighting is done by the awesome Webessence syntax highlighter.