Company News
Redfin Presents Opportunity Score at White House Open Data Event
Opportunity Score is a data-driven tool based on Walk Score® that will help Americans find housing with easy access to jobs.
JavaScript Documentation Generator Showdown
Redfin evaluates various JavaScript documentation generators and find the winners for our case.
Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Santa Barbara
Homebuyers and sellers can now work with Redfin agents in Santa Barbara and view all of the homes for sale on Redfin.com and from our iOS and Android apps.
How ‘The Chuck Norris of Boston Real Estate’ Helped One Homebuyer Beat the Competition
Getting a killer deal is possible with the right agent on your side.
Preserving colorized server logs
How to use unix tools and node.js to preserve logs while outputting colorized output into the terminal.
Redfin Agents Have Arrived in Kansas City
Redfin real estate agents can now help you buy and sell homes in the Kansas City metro area, in both Kansas and Missouri.
Why Isn’t There an Executive Master’s Program in Computer Science?
Two executive MBA students just came by the house to interview me for a class on entrepreneurship. Answering questions about the #1 quality of an
If I Can Change, and You Can Change, Everybody Can Change!
There’s plenty of talk on Twitter and the web about my saying in an interview with the Globe & Mail in Toronto that the real estate industry
Email, Phone & Fax All Back Online
All the ways you’d normally communicate with us are now back online. This includes agent emails, agent office phone numbers and fax numbers. We’re very
Daniel Phommathep, Rest in Peace
Dave Selinger, Redfin’s founding CTO and now the CEO of RichRelevance, contacted us today with news that one of the original developers of Redfin’s website,
First the Novel, Then The Essay, Now The Link
The web has turned every writer into a modernist poet. Take the strange little masterpiece that is Tom Scocca’s essay on the martyrdom of Gilbert
Laziness (in proxies) is a virtue
In Hibernate, when you indicate that a domain object should not support lazy proxies, you make it hard for DAO writers to get their code to perform well. Worse, you disable a capability that they may be counting on, and they may not notice until there are major performance problems. Unless you have a good reason to, use “@Proxy(lazy = true)” on your domain objects.
