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Professor Henry Duckling was born on 1957 to a flower girl from Covent Garden Market in London. After completing his studies in Textile Engineering from Pulau Java University in Indonesia, He worked as a Professor in a couple of universities and had a comfortable life.

Duckling and E-Learning

Then some thing happened in 1997 which changed his life forever. He chucked his comfortable teaching job and joined a dot com company as a Chief Instructional Designer. This dot com was an e-learning portal for hosiery industry.

In 2000 He became CEO after a major reshuffle when all the animals (This is what Duckling calls CEO's, CTO's, COO's etc) were fired for non-performance. But Duckling found that these animals had made a killing in these three years when he checked the previous accounts and found that the networking wires were purchased at higher rates, he wondered aloud "Are them wires made of gold or copper?". He promptly opened a wire and found that there was no gold in those wires and reported the same to his promoter Li Yu Chung "there is no gold in them wires". Four months later the company closed down for the want of funds just before Duckling's planned "Go To Market" Strategy.

Duckling and Mobile Games

Duckling then went to Himalayas to find out an answer to a question that was bugging him since long. The question was "What is life?". He came back to London in 2002 an enlightened man and told Chung "Life is mobile".

Taking a cue from his enlightenment he started a Java mobile gaming startup with Chung's money. This time around, Chung went bankrupt. In Ducklings own words "All them Service Providers and Mobile Vendors ganged up against us and didn't publish any of our games".

Duckling and J2ME

During his tenure with these two companies Duckling had become pretty good with Java technologies. His staff gave him two names

• JEME-ed: meaning J2ME Nerd.
• J2ME Buster: meaning he can solve any problem in J2ME. Some people also say that this name was given to him because he had experienced two bursts - dot com bubble burst and mobile "too many startups" burst.

Finally Duckling is back to square one. He is back to teaching but this time e-learning for J2ME. Duckling says "Finally I have found the meaning of my life - a community portal for the J2ME-ed". He now lives at South Pole.

Duckling's Likes

Apart from J2ME, Duckling also likes

• Salsa: Both sauce and dance.
• Grandmothers: He is single and looking.

Duckling's Dislikes

• JavaME: He still prefers to call it "jolly good J2ME".
  

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