Posts by Allen Cheung
Good UI Begets Great UI
With the recent updates to apps like Flipboard and Path[1] (not to mention the existing base of well-designed apps on iOS), it's about time iOS developers are breaking away from the standard mobile app UI. They'…
From the Armchair
I came across this article yesterday, provocatively titled "If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?". She makes a few good points: armchair generals point out the obvious, company leaders have to…
In Memory of Reasonably Priced Software
This post has been sitting in my Dropbox drafts folder for a few weeks now. I was thinking about how the current software boom is one of the few bright sectors in our current economy, with the web and software…
Next on the List, vim
Painters have paintbrushes, writers have pens, and coders have…well, text editors. Real life software hackery is less glamorous than what Hollywood would believe, but an experienced developer work a set of familiar tools is still pretty awe-inspiring. The best…
User-Centric Development
When Adobe announced this week that it is no longer trying to make Flash viable on mobile platforms, there was a good amount of developer talk on the ramifications. In particular, some on Hacker News lamented that they could no…
Coffeescript: Joyful and Unreadable
I had an interesting chat with a visiting engineer today about Javascript app frameworks, specifically Backbone.js. Backbone is probably the most popular one out there right now, on account of having excellent documentation and being minimalistic and non-intrusive. They…
