Steven Xu

Canada

http://stevenxu.ca

Hi friends! I'm Steven Xu. I'm an enthusiastic San Francisco software engineer focused on the Web.

In my spare time, I like to play and coach volleyball and dabble in linguistics, especially phonetics.

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Unit-testing a controller in Ruby on Rails

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