Posts by Allen Cheung
Acquaintance with Rails
It's been a lengthy two months since I decided to sit down and try to learn Ruby on Rails. Having already been through PHP and Python (both Pylons and Django), Rails is one of those technologies that you…
Blind Hindsight
How many times have you heard about stories like Excite having a chance to buy Google, back in 1999, for $1 million? Or, if only someone not named Bill Gates got the rights to distribute MS-DOS for $75,000, Microsoft…
The Value of Quora
A few days ago, I ran across this post commenting on the decline of Quora, at least in mindshare and media coverage. While this conclusion is dubious based on raw traffic numbers, my own anecdotal use has steadily declined since…
Readability, or the Lack Thereof
Call it an experiment gone wrong, or an overzealous symphony of clashing font properties; I've had more than one person complain that this blog's text isn't that readable, and that while the styles are…
HTML5 Madness
I'm conflicted. As a front-end web developer, I should be excited about the advancements in HTML5: the new HTML tags that correct all the hacks and self-replicating divs; the correctly cross-browser rendered styles which have finally caught up…
Code Pessimism
Raise your hand if you've ever looked at a your codebase and uttered one or more of the following: * Hm, should get to that TODO at some point. * I'll love deleting that chunk code when we…
