{"id":51561,"date":"2008-06-27T12:20:43","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T09:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/?p=51561"},"modified":"2024-09-26T05:49:22","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T02:49:22","slug":"the-legendary-designer-of-yahoo-to-collaborate-with-altoros-on-the-largest-ror-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-legendary-designer-of-yahoo-to-collaborate-with-altoros-on-the-largest-ror-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Legendary Designer of Yahoo! to Collaborate with Altoros on the Largest RoR Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><small>(<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Hillman_Curtis_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Featured image credit<\/a>)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_79_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-transparent ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-legendary-designer-of-yahoo-to-collaborate-with-altoros-on-the-largest-ror-project\/#The_details_of_cooperation\" >The details of cooperation<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-legendary-designer-of-yahoo-to-collaborate-with-altoros-on-the-largest-ror-project\/#Further_reading\" >Further reading<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_details_of_cooperation\"><\/span>The details of cooperation<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/yahoo.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/yahoo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-51563\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hillman_Curtis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hillman Curtis<\/a>, considered by many to be the leading designer of our time, will take part in our major Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) project. Previously, Mr. Curtis was involved in a multitude of design initiatives for such companies as Yahoo!, Adobe, AOL, etc. He was a Design Director for Macromedia before opening his own studio Hillmancurtis, Inc., and published four books on Flash and web design.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Curtis will join our 30+ Ruby-on-Rails experts to work on the largest RoR project known today. For one of our customers, we are creating a &#8220;life organizer&#8221; in the form of a social network that features a set of integrated web apps.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m happy to start working with the team of development, marketing, and strategic planning professionals and would love to see this project grow.&#8221; \u2014Hillman Curtis<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The applications will include personal time management tools (to-do lists, blogs, wiki, files), project management tools (calendars, real-time alerts and notifications, time sheets), and social networking features (chats, contacts, etc.).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Further_reading\"><\/span>Further reading<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/play-vs-grails-which-one-is-better-than-ruby-on-rails\/\">RubyConf Argentina: Altoros Held a Contest for Rails Fans<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/using-open-source-tools-for-building-efficient-cloud-management-systems\/\">Altoros at the Largest Ruby Confs in Ukraine<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/altoros-invited-dave-nielsen-to-hold-the-first-cloudcamp-in-eastern-europe\/\">Altoros Invited Dave Nielsen to Hold the First CloudCamp in Eastern Europe<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Featured image credit)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The details of cooperation<\/p>\n<p>Hillman Curtis, considered by many to be the leading designer of our time, will take part in our major Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) project. Previously, Mr. Curtis was involved in a multitude of design initiatives for such companies as Yahoo!, Adobe, AOL, etc. He was a Design [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":67903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[895],"class_list":["post-51561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-opinion","tag-research-and-development"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Legendary Designer of Yahoo! to Collaborate with Altoros on the Largest RoR Project | Altoros<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The joint work will result in a social network solution with a set of integrated web apps, including personal time and project management tools, etc.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.altoros.com\/blog\/the-legendary-designer-of-yahoo-to-collaborate-with-altoros-on-the-largest-ror-project\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Legendary Designer of Yahoo! to Collaborate with Altoros on the Largest RoR Project | Altoros\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"(Featured image credit) &nbsp; The details of cooperation Hillman Curtis, considered by many to be the leading designer of our time, will take part in our major Ruby-on-Rails (RoR) project. 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