Wuit trademarked in Australia now! :-)

The trademark application in the US is being progressed as well.

If you don’t already know, Wuit is my soon to be launched studio identity.

[Rails] RailsConfig, A New Iteration of AppConfig for Rails 3

If you haven’t already been using AppConfig in your Rails project, well, you should!

Jacques Crocker has recently released his new version of the original AppConfig - RailsConfig. I was invited to join the development of this new tool, so make sure you go check it out. :-)

[Rails] Inherited Resources Views Now Supports Rails 2.x

I have just pushed a commit that added Rails 2.x compatibility to Inherited Resources Views. Please give it a spin! :-)

P.S. I’ve only tested it on Rails 2.3.8.

Reinvigorate - Realtime Website Traffic Analysis

It isn’t the first time realtime website traffic analysis has been introduced. Reinvigorate is one of the services that provides realtime traffic tracking and analysis.

The thing I like it most though, is in fact the heatmap. :-)

Heatmap is a great tool to help identify convoluted interface and improve the user experience.

Poke me on Github! :D

I have just added a Github ribbon to my blog (look at the top left corner!). Please feel free to poke me! :D

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[Rails] Releasing Inherited Resources Views - DRY Your View Files

Using Inherited Resources is an excellent way to reduce the amount of repetition in your controllers. But what about views? A lot of times resources share the same views, so why not DRY ‘em up using Inherited Resources Views!

Go check out the code! :-)

Released my first ruby gem. :-)

Looks like it’s time for a reboot…

[jQuery] Releasing Inline Confirmation, Confirm Actions Done Right

In a web app, it is very common to have actions that destroy (delete/remove) data. These actions, if you don’t already know, should always map to POST methods. On top of that, because these actions are destructive, the UI should always ask the user for confirmation.

But how do we actually implement the confirmation dialogue though? The vanilla JavaScript confirm box would be the easiest but at the same time the ugliest - this thing stalls most web browsers until the user acts on it.

An inline popup/modal box? Perhaps, but it is still obtrusive, in the sense that the popup/model boxes are usually in the way of other tasks.

Meet Inline Confirmation - a jQuery plugin for creating easy, less obtrusive confirmation dialogues!

Feel free to give it a spin. I will add more documentation and a demo when and if I have time. ;)

I’m Now a Ruby on Rails Contributor

I am extremely happy that my patch was accepted, so I am now one of the 1600 odd people who have contributed to the Rails project! :D

About Me

Fred Wu

Located in Melbourne, Australia, I currently work as a development team lead at SitePoint.

Grew up in Shanghai, China, I quickly became interested in computers and the Internet at the age of 13. I started off by creating simple websites using basic HTML I learnt from reading computer magazines. Later on I worked in online publishing, marketing and web hosting while studying in high school. After being a 'webmaster' for a few years, I began my career in web development and design. I studied Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I worked as a web developer at places such as Envato and PlayUp before joining SitePoint.

I am primarily a Ruby and PHP developer as well as a front-end/UI developer. In my spare time I also try to do as much creative designs as I could in order to keep my design skills polished. I also focus strongly on user experience and user interface design.

I am a passionate open source developer who contributes to many of the projects on GitHub, including Ruby on Rails.

Please feel free to shoot me an email if you would like to get in touch. I am also happy to provide estimates and consultancy to any web based projects. You may write to me in English or in Chinese. :)

My Projects

I am the author of the following projects.

Action Throttler - Throttle actions based on configurable duration and limit.

Angel Nest - An open source 'clone' of AngelList.

Datamappify - Turn ActiveRecord into DataMapper (sort of)!

Haml2Slim - Convert Haml templates to Slim templates.

Inherited Resources Views - DRY your view files!

Security Guard - A collection of useful tools for auditing data.

Authlite - A lightweight, flexible Auth module for Kohana.

KThrottler - Throttle actions based on configurable duration and limit.

PHamlP - A bridge between Kohana and PHamlP.

Endless Scroll - Endless / infinite scrolling solution for jQuery.

Inline Confirmation - Less obtrusive confirmation dialogues.

Slideshow Lite - A lightweight slideshow plugin for jQuery.

I am the co-author of the following projects.

RailsConfig - Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails 3.

Slim - A template language similar to Haml.

Ssync - An optimised S3 sync tool using the power of Unix!

I also made contribution to the following projects.

Admin Data - Rails plugin - browse and manage your data using browser.

App Config - Rails plugin that provides application configuration.

Bundler - Ruby gem dependency manager.

Capybara-mechanize - Mechanize driver for Capybara.

Carrierwave - File uploads solution for Rack, Rails, Merb and Sinatra.

Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.

Delayed Job - Database based asynchronously priority queue system.

Deployer - Simplify the deployment of Ruby on Rails applications.

Inherited Resources - Making controllers inherit all restful actions.

Parallel - Ruby: parallel processing made simple and fast.

Parallel Tests - 2x Testing Speed for RSpec, Test::Unit and Cucumber.

Ruby on Rails - Web development that doesn't hurt.

Rails Templater - Template generator for Ruby on Rails 3 applications.

Sass Rails - Ruby on Rails stylesheet engine for Sass.

Steak - Minimalist acceptance testing on top of RSpec.

Textmate - Command-line package manager for the Textmate editor.

Kohana - An elegant HMVC PHP 5 framework.

Vanilla - An open source discussion forum for the web.

Yii Framework - A high performance PHP framework.

AutoSuggest - Turn regular text input boxes into auto-complete boxes.

Wuit trademarked in Australia now! :-) The trademark application in the US is being progressed as well. If you don’t already know, Wuit is my soon to be launched studio identity.