Posts by Allen Cheung
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 outside…
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's a…
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.…
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…
Writing Posts with Markdown
For a little while, I was looking for a desktop blogging client to accompany Wordpress. I was particularly wary of the WP WYSIWYG editor, with its non-deterministic written text -> HTML conversion, and I was also wondering whether desktop…
Why Bejeweled Blitz Remains Addictive
Bejeweled Blitz (BB), after all these years, remains one of the best games Popcap has released. Both the iOS version[1] and the Facebook version still receive considerable play, which is pretty amazing seeing the game hasn't been…
