Posts by Allen Cheung
Social Gaming is About Business
It's now cliché to claim that gamification permeate all aspects of life; the talk of 2010 and 2011 was that everything seemed to be heading towards cheap, immediate-reward schemes with the subtlety of slot machines. If it can…
Right Talent for the Job
If it's not evident already, I think and write a lot about the interview and hiring process for engineers at software companies. Getting good people in the door, verifying their greatness, and then convincing them to your cause…
Developer Entitlement
I guess it was inevitable that software developers let the current talent crunch get into their heads. Recruiters continue to spam anyone who can slap two lines of code together, so developers are feeling pretty good about job prospects; we…
Routine
Hm, it's been a while since I last wrote; I tried to keep the post-per-week schedule intact, but work has a way of killing the literary spark at the end of long days, themselves a part of a…
Paying for Design
App stores are pretty old news now. They're easy repositories for developers to build small, usable - and in many cases, experimental - applications and make a few bucks selling them. It's an awesome platform for…
Don't Build for a Bubble
I heard we're in a tech bubble. People have been calling our industry a bubble ever since angels and VCs started putting in a few extra bucks when that entire housing thing turned sour. Well, if the sign…
