Though I never made a formal announcement here, some of you may know that I joined the Android team at Google just over a year ago. Last week I had the privilege of speaking at Google I/O in a talk called “Memory Management for Android Applications”:
Android apps have [...] Read post »
In my previous post, I lamented the fact that mobile notifications can be totally annoying if they come at the wrong time. This was triggered by being woken up several times in the past few weeks by a flurry of Beluga messages.
Thankfully, one of my coworkers told me about Locale, [...] Read post »
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about notifications. A few weeks ago, I started using Beluga with some of my friends at work. Beluga is a great group messaging app; so nice that it’s tempting to use it almost a bit too often.
Beluga seems to work best if you respond [...] Read post »
As a Python developer, sooner or later you’ll want to install a package from the Python Package Index. Unfortunately, this is not as simple as it could be. Most documentation tells you to use easy_install, but maybe you’ve heard that all the cool kids are using pip these days. What’s [...] Read post »
I mentioned it off-hand in a previous post, but thought I should mention it again:
If you’re interested in web browser user experience, take a look at Browser Bits, my little tumblelog/mini-blog thingy all about browser UX.
Last week, I went to Atlanta for CHI 2010 to present my paper A Study of Tabbed Browsing Among Mozilla Firefox Users. For those who couldn’t be there, or just don’t feel like reading a 10-page academic paper, here’s a transcript-by-memory of the talk.
If you want a Cole’s Notes version, [...] Read post »
If you’re going to CHI 2010 in Atlanta next week, you should come check out my talk on Tuesday morning at 9. I’ll be presenting a paper on the tabbed browsing study I did last year. Hope to see you there! If anyone wants to meet up, send me an [...] Read post »
On stage Wednesday at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad as “the best browsing experience you’ve ever had. Way better than a laptop, way better than a smart phone.” Quite a claim.
Of course, the iPad browser is Safari. And from what I’ve seen and [...] Read post »
It’s been a while since I posted a real update here — it’s about time I filled you all in on what I’ve been up to.
Academia
In April, I finished my master’s in Compter Science (Human-Computer Interaction) at the University of Toronto. My thesis was a study of how people use [...] Read post »
If you visited this site in the last day or so, you probably saw a 404. Sorry about that. I had to bring the site down for a bit to upgrade my woefully out-of-date WordPress installation. A few weeks ago, someone actually took advantage of the ancient version of WordPress [...] Read post »
