Posts by Allen Cheung
The Fresh Smell of Google+
By now, Google+ has gone through: * 8-9 months' worth of internal dogfooding[1] * a media blitzkrieg * an interactive demo * one round of external beta testing * one round of external beta testers inviting as many friends as possible The general…
Frustrating CSS Animations
I want to like CSS3 animations: they seem cleaner than relying on setTimeout() or setInterval()-based Javascript animations, generally run faster and are optimized by the browser, sometimes even hardware accelerated. If I want smooth animations in a mobile browser,…
The Pain of Mobile Web Development
I've been playing around with the coding mobile sites and webapps lately. Ironically, although Apple had first pushed for web apps with iOS 1.0 - it's hard to remember that the iPhone did not let…
Startups are about Passion
It's been an exhausting week. My first week as a software engineer at Square has me collapsing on the couch nightly. Though the first few days are always stressful and daunting - startups especially so - it'…
Touch Interfaces and Disregarding Creation
When I heard the iOS announcement this morning on system-wide Twitter integration, I figured it was a great UI move on Twitter's part, and at the very least would get more usage from the power Twitter users. Then…
HTML is Still the Great Equalizer
If you had to sit down and write some software for end-users, which platform and language would you write it in now? How about five, ten years ago, or three years in the future? I believe the answer ought to…
