Hello!

me

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 for Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. I now work as a web developer at Envato.

skills

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.

exp

During high school I worked as a part time site editor for a gadget website as well as a freelancing author, I contributed articles for many of the Chinese IT magazines. Soon I became fascinated by the World Wide Web so I started making my own websites and started hacking scripts. I began working as a part time web developer shortly after I graduated from high school. During the four years of study at TAFE and university, I worked as a freelancer and focused mostly on web development and design. I worked full time as a web developer at a Melbourne-based media agency before landing my current job at Envato.

oss

I am an active open source developer who contributes to many of the projects on GitHub.

Here is a list of my open source projects.

• Ruby - Action Throttler - Throttle actions based on configurable duration and limit.
• Ruby - Datamappify - Turn ActiveRecord into DataMapper (sort of)!
• Ruby - Inherited Resources Views - DRY your view files!
• PHP - Authlite - A lightweight, flexible Auth module for Kohana.
• PHP - KThrottler - Throttle actions based on configurable duration and limit.
• PHP - PHamlP - A bridge between Kohana and PHamlP.
• JavaScript - Endless Scroll - Endless / infinite scrolling solution for jQuery.
• JavaScript - Inline Confirmation - Less obtrusive confirmation dialogues.
• JavaScript - Slideshow Lite - A lightweight slideshow plugin for jQuery.

I have also made contribution to these open source projects.

• Ruby - Admin Data - Rails plugin - browse and manage your data using browser.
• Ruby - App Config - Rails plugin that provides application configuration.
• Ruby - Bundler - Ruby gem dependency manager.
• Ruby - Carrierwave - Classier file uploads solution for Rack, Rails, Merb and Sinatra.
• Ruby - Devise - Flexible authentication solution for Rails with Warden.
• Ruby - Delayed Job - Database based asynchronously priority queue system.
• Ruby - Inherited Resources - Making controllers inherit all restful actions.
• Ruby - MongoMapper - A Ruby object mapper for MongoDB.
• Ruby - RailsConfig - Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails 3.
• Ruby - Ruby on Rails - Web development that doesn't hurt.
• Ruby - Textmate - Command-line package manager for Textmate.
• PHP - Vanilla - An open source discussion forum for the web.

hi!

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. :)