Packt.Cloning.Internet.Applications.With.Ruby.Aug.2010.eBook-ELOHiM.pdf

Cloning Internet Applications

with Ruby

Make your own TinyURL, Twitter, Flickr, or Facebook

using Ruby

Chang Sau Sheong

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby

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First published: August 2010

Production Reference: 1110810

Published by Packt Publishing Ltd.

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ISBN 978-1-849511-06-3

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Cover Image by Asher Wishkerman ( a.wishkerman@mpic.de )

Credits

Author

Chang Sau Sheong

Editorial Team Leader

Aanchal Kumar

Reviewer

Warren Brian Noronha

Project Team Leader

Lata Basantani

Francisco

Acquisition Editor

Douglas Paterson

Project Coordinator

Jovita Pinto

Development Editor

Chaitanya Apte

Proofreader

Aaron Nash

Technical Editors

Alfred John

Graphics

Geetanjali Sawant

Kartikey Pandey

Production Coordinator

Arvindkumar Gupta

Indexer

Hemangini Bari

Cover Work

Arvindkumar Gupta

About the Author

Chang Sau Sheong has more than 15 years experience in software application

development and has spent much of his career working on Web and Internet-based

applications. He started up elipva, an e-business software company, and was the

Vice President of Product Engineering as well as Chief Architect. Subsequently he

was Director of Software Development for Welcome Real-time, a bank loyalty

software company, Engineering Director for Yahoo! Southeast Asia and Chief

Technology Oficer for Garena Online, an online game publishing company. He is

currently the Director of the Applied Cloud Computing Lab in HP Labs Singapore,

the research arm of Hewlett Packard, leading a team of engineers to implement

cloud computing solutions.

Sau Sheong frequently writes for technical magazines and journals, including Java

Report, Java World, and Dr. Dobb’s Journal. He is a passionate programmer who

contributes to open source projects in various technologies including Ruby and Java.

He has a wide range of experience in web application development on the Internet

and mobile devices. His irst book was ‘Ruby on Rails Mashup Projects’ in 2008, also

published by Packt Publishing.

Sau Sheong hails from tropical Malaysia but spent most of his adult and working

life in sunny Singapore, where he shares his spare time between enthusiastically

writing software and equally enthusiastically playing Nintendo Wii with his wife

and son. He has a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering, a Masters degree in

Commercial Law, and is a certiied international arbitrator.

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