Cloning Internet Applications with Ruby
Chang Sau SheongChang 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 Officer 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 first 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 certified international arbitrator.