Posts by Allen Cheung
On Blogging
I've been blogging for a while now, but this particular one with its emphasis on technical matters is only six months young. The initial idea was to force myself to think about programming and software while I make…
Silky Smooth Browsing
Almost lost amidst the announcements yesterday of Amazon's new Kindle Fire tablet is their new browser, Silk. Though some blogs picked up the story after all the hardware hype and media attention died down, most chose to focus…
Dvorak Update
It's been a little over a month since I decided to learn Dvorak. I switched over the OS's keyboard settings and spent a few days practicing typing. I guess the Dvorak tutorials were completely right; there…
Javascript Web Applications
Despite my reservations about the inefficiencies of books on technology, I've been reading Javascript Web Applications to catch up on the past 2+ years of JS development and understand the emergent client-side patterns. I admit that I…
Y U No Join Startup?
Opportunities! Learning new things! Massive impact! Changing the world! T-Shirts and foosball tables! Beer and parties! Code ninjaing! There is seemingly an endless number of reasons to join a startup, especially now that so many exist, have a decent…
Modern Site Engineering
Whew. A few weeks ago, we released our new Square and Card Case apps. Alongside the new apps, the front-end web development team spent a long two, three weeks to launch a new site worthy of our revamped product…
