Posts by Allen Cheung
How I Evolved my RSS Reading
Ars had an article today on how RSS is no longer a sane way to consume news; I also saw Marco (of Instapaper fame) posted how he has changed his RSS habit for "sane RSS usage", namely by…
Don't Design and Code
There has been an ongoing debate on whether designers—web designers, to be specific—ought to be able to code their designs. This article, for instance, re-ignites the debate. I guess the combination of designers moving onto the web…
Dvoraky
One of the things I've always wanted to try was to switch to a Dvorak keyboard layout. It's one of those computing optimizations that seem to make sense in practice, but hard to start given that…
More than just Programmers
I came this article yesterday. In brief, it talks about a group of veteran programmers - 20+ years of experience, these guys - who lament about today's programmers lacking the skill to work at low levels of software or even…
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,…
