George Ornbo是英国的一位JavaScript和Ruby开发人员。他开发Web应用程序已有8年时间，一开始是以自由职业者的身份工作，最近则为伦敦的pebble {code}工作。他的博客地址是http://shapeshed.com，在网络中大多数常见的地方，他都以@shapeshed出现。

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