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Redfin’s March Madness Comes to NPR
Out of nowhere last week, an NPR producer sent us a note asking about Redfin’s March Madness plans. At first I thought she was talking
How to Have a Good Time
“If there’s one thing I know how to do,” a friend once told me, after one of those long, grappa-fueled nights of ping-pong that make
Fighting Illini (Anti-Rebate Bill “Crushed”)
A bill introduced by the Illinois legislature to outlaw refunding real estate commissions to consumers, which we complained about last month, finally died today. An
Plumbing Upgrade: We’re Using Bricolage For Content Management
Believe it or not, but up until the beginning of March this year, we were not using a Content Management System (CMS). This post will
The Red Carpet: Burritos y Beer y Real Estate Website
Last fall we opened our doors for a live real estate mashup dubbed The Red Carpet; a sort of customer meets agent and engineer free-for-all.
The Little Website That Could
Like a hideously tortured beast finally broken free of its chains, Redfin’s engineering team has been on the rampage this winter, releasing the second major
It’s Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
It's Still Expensive to Build a Great Product
It has become commonplace to claim that the cost of starting a company has declined by an order of magnitude; just this morning Dave McClure
“You Should Be Urinating Right Now” (A Real-Time Web Server)
As part of our Engineer-to-Engineer series of talks on topics such as Hadoop, Scala, HTML5, Cassandra and Clusto, Redfin invited Ryan Dahl to speak last Wednesday on Node.JS, a web
HTML 5 vs. Native Applications
Every month or so, as part of a series of talks called Engineer-2-Engineer (E2E), one of the gods of software engineering descends into the San
Guest Post from My Twin Brother: So Long, World Cup
My twin brother is an old-school letter writer with a Symbian phone. Here’s a note he just sent me about the World Cup, which has
Introducing MultiMarker: The fastest way to add many hundreds or thousands of markers on Google Maps
At Google IO 2009, our fearless leader Sasha Aickin (my boss) demonstrated our high-performance Google Maps utility library to the world; we provided directions explaining
