Posts by Allen Cheung
The Care and Feeding of your Front End Development Team
At the start of the year, I highlighted what I thought was the formula for getting and developing front-end engineers. To summarize, it's a combination of: identifying the right traits, cross-pollinating developers from disparate disciplines, and…
The Importance of Degradation
I never caught onto Pandora/Last.fm/Spotify online music craze. A combination of: * a lack of connectivity (commuting on the BART), * quizzical music tastes (with a soft spot for Asian pop), and * a obsessive tendency to listen to the…
Fragments of the Web
With Apple's introduction of the Retina-display-equipped Macbook, we're starting to enter a transitional period in display resolutions. As usual, Apple's leading the charge while keeping things simple via pixel doubling, but much…
Vimtastic
Late last year, I finally made the effort to learn that other text editor, vim. I knew the basics of emacs from school, and I had always relied on simple, graphical text editors like Textmate and domain-specific IDEs along…
Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk
Lately, I've been reflecting on my software engineering career as a software engineer. I've had the privilege of working with some truly exceptional developers, and while most of them weren't great teachers[1], they…
Hiring, Interviews, and Being Productive
I was pleasantly informed by one of our new Squares yesterday that some of my writing had helped him with his interviews at Square and front-end web development in general. Here are some relevant links that may be useful…
