About
My name is Chu Yeow and I watch too much anime. When I’m not watching anime, I write code. My favorites are Ruby and JavaScript. I’m starting to like Objective-C as well.
I’ve made some measly contributions back to the Open Source community, mostly to Ruby on Rails (I’m the 19th top contributor to Rails as I’m writing this on 3 July 2009, and have also won a monthly Rails Hackfest). I’ve also contributed patches to jQuery, Thin, Merb. I wish I had more discipline to roll out polished Rubygems, but I don’t so my only published Rubygem so far is Facon, a lightweight mocking and stubbing ruby library.
I also wrote Firefox Secrets (yes, a book on the Mozilla Firefox web browser) in 2005 before Firefox 2 was released. I’m fairly surprised at the few positive reviews on Amazon – if it sold more copies I’d be swimming in my hundreds of dollars in royalties. And yes, I do love Firefox, I think it’s the best web browser despite some of its flaws.
I work for Wego.com with some of the brightest people in Singapore trying to build a great travel meta-search engine for Asia and Australia (and one day, we will conquer the world).