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      ## Hi, I'm Ariejan de Vroom

      Hi! I'm Ariejan de Vroom, a thirty-two year old Ruby on Rails developer and Software
      Craftsman. I live in [Breugel, the Netherlands][1] with my fiancée [Laura][2]
      and work full-time at [Kabisa ICT][3].

      I started programming in the mid-nineties with [GW-BASIC][9] and [QBasic][10]. Soon
      thereafter I discovered [Turbo Pascal][11] and then made the jump to [Delphi][12].

      At this point I started playing with lots of different languages and platforms. Then,
      almost naturally I made the switch to the web and started developing in [PHP][13].

      Not satisfied with the often messy code from the PHP community I discovered [Ruby on Rails][14]
      somewhere in 2005. I've been writing Ruby ever since.

      ### Find out more about me

      Check me out on [Twitter][4], [Github][6] or [LinkedIn][5] to get to know me a bit better.

      If you want to contact me, please use the contact form on this page or [tweet something][4]
      or [send an email directly][8].

      [1]: http://maps.google.nl/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=nl&geocode=&q=eindhoven&sll=52.469397,5.509644&sspn=4.692139,10.942383&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Breugel,+Noord-Brabant&ll=51.440313,5.482178&spn=4.800964,10.942383&t=h&z=7
      [2]: http://laura-oerlemans.net/
      [3]: http://kabisa.nl/
      [4]: http://twitter.com/ariejan
      [5]: http://aj.gs/linkedin
      [6]: http://aj.gs/github
      [8]: mailto:ariejan@ariejan.net
      [9]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GW-BASIC
      [10]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qbasic
      [11]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_pascal
      [12]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borland_Delphi
      [13]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Php
      [14]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails

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