Developer Diary #1: Screen Space Dilemma
The developer diary will be a place for our developers to talk about the pitfalls, gotcha’s, solutions, and technology they’re working on. Sometimes these posts will deal with Ally, sometimes they’ll be completely unrelated, but always (hopefully) insightful. I wanted to comment today about how screen space has changed in the last few years. Specifically, we live in a horizontal world now, and that just wasn’t the case before. Back in the bad old days of CRTs, the 14 square inches of screen real estate didn’t much care if your UI was laid out horizontal or vertically. However, because...
What would you say you…do here?
Hi, my name is Patrick White and I’d like to introduce you to Ally Software. Ally was started 6 months ago, and originally addressed a funny little problem – email overload. One of my pet peeves has always been email overload, especially having worked as a Product Manager. The question I posed was, how can I decrease my email, or increase my throughput? As anyone will tell you, it’s not an easy question to answer. There are solutions you can put in place for people to get answers to questions they might otherwise ask through email and there are tools...