Posts by Allen Cheung
Conducting Developer Interviews
Some comments from my last post and on Hacker News brought up an interesting point: it's not easy to conduct software engineering interviews. If you've ever looked for a job as a developer, chances are you…
How to Score a Google Onsite Interview
You might have heard that Google is looking to hire some 6,000 new employees this year. What that means is a lot of time spent by recruiters looking for candidates, talking with them, and then setting them up with…
The Incessant Whine of Web Designers
I can't be the first person to think that web designers - often, freelancers as a group - spend more time and energy telling everybody else that that their work is important. In particular, it seems like once a week,…
Web Typography, then and Now
I realized today at work that this site's title font-face wasn't loading. Figuring a long night ahead of debugging the WebFont Loader that's trying to grab the Raleway font (it is quite elegant,…
Designing this Blog
It took me three and a half months to create the theme for this blog. Ok, so I was on-and-off, and many nights I was just too tired from coding at work to do any additional programming (esp.…
Oh wow, Yet Another Blog...
It's always fun to do the first post of a blog. Like writing the first lines of code in a project, there's always this call of potential and unrealized greatness a blank canvas affords. Yes, this…
