Posts by Allen Cheung
Can the Enterprise be Consumerized?
The buzzword for the past 2-3 years – ever since people affirmed that smartphones and tablets are kind of a big deal – is that the office will have to adapt and ultimately cater to its workers' home computing setups.…
Gadgetry Hope
Half of technology rumors nowadays follow a Mad Libs-ian template[1]: (reputable technology company) is rumored to be working on a (untouched, potentially sexy gadget). Their expertise in (what the company is good at) can bring a fresh look…
Is Product Simplicity a Reasonable Goal?
User interfaces are kind of a big deal nowadays in the valley; coming up with something minimalistic, simple, and takes the least amount of clicks/taps from the user is press conference material from the big companies, and the crux…
Bay Area Housing is Still Pretty Crazy
Few things are as humbling as for a software engineer in silicon valley as dealing with the state of the housing market here. For all the talk about those who build software getting paid more from the shortage of talent…
The Growth Trajectory of a Front-End Engineer
I've been wrestling with this question for years: what does a successful, senior-to-staff-to-VP level front-end engineer look like? It's a question that I've found has different answers depends on…
Cashing in on Engineering Wisdom
I think every few months, I'll come across an article that laments that the software industry is explicitly and implicitly ageist; that it's infatuated with youth and has a frat-boy monoculture that does not welcome…
