George Ornbo是英國的一位JavaScript和Ruby開發人員。他開發Web應用程序已有8年時間，一開始是以自由職業者的身份工作，最近則為倫敦的pebble {code}工作。他的博客地址是http://shapeshed.com，在網絡中大多數常見的地方，他都以@shapeshed齣現。

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