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Alone, Just the Two of Us

June 21, 2012

I’d just sat down last month for a chat with the CEO of a very successful startup when his co-founder, the company’s chairman, walked into

Javascript Prototype and Multiple Inheritance with dojo.declare

June 15, 2012

Coming from the C++ background into javascript programming was a fun ride. I read many blog posts and articles about javascript inheritance, and after reading

May Real Estate Prices Increase 2.2% as Inventory Continues to Fall

June 12, 2012

Now that Redfin covers about as many markets as the Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller index, we are publishing our own monthly report on prices, sales volume and inventory: the Redfin Real-Time Price Tracker. Our goal is to offer the deep data access and market insights of a local broker, but on a national scale.

Homes Listed with a Redfin Agent are Viewed Twice as Often

June 7, 2012

What if we could get our clients’ listings in front of more serious home buyers searching in their neighborhood and give them a better chance of selling for even more money, even faster? That’s just what we set out to do in 2012.

CMSClassUnloadingEnabled at Redfin

June 7, 2012

tl;dr: If you’re using the CMS collector in Java 6 (-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC) server-side, then you should really consider –XX:+CMSClassUnloadingEnabled Today’s post starts out with a story.

Redfin's Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker: Buyers Become More Confident

June 4, 2012

Today, we’re launching the survey results as a regular report, The Redfin Real-Time Home-Buyer Tracker, updated with data for the second quarter of 2012. What we found this quarter mostly is evidence of a strengthening market.