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Something I’ve Been Meaning to Say for A Long Time
For no real reason, a San Diego Sweet Digs blogger attacked real estate broker Kris Berg today. The contract blogger, a usually kind person who
Boston Real Estate: Not Clinically Depressed, Just a Split Personality
Chris Glew – Redfin Advantage essayist and Boston hockey fan – stopped another fur-flying meeting in its tracks last week with an arresting observation. He
Men Like Ravenous Fishes Feed on One Another
Redfin Short Sale Policy Update: We’re sorry, Redfin no longer tours or services offers on short sales. Like the bad-news boyfriend you can’t cut loose
At Last, The Outrage is Over (Introducing Redfin Select)
Evan, one of several old roommates who still put me up on visits to San Francisco, is perhaps the most dignified person I know. He
The Redfin Advantage: Bigger, Broader, Higher Statistical Confidence
April 24, 2008 addition: Redfin is correcting how it calculates the weighted average in the Redfin Advantage report. Greg Wharton, the general counsel at my
Syndicate Redfin Listings in WordPress
Our very own PM, Matt Goyer, recently setup his Seattle condos WordPress blog to include a syndication of new Redfin listings. We thought it would
The Best Blog Post I’ve Read in a Long Time
Anyone who reads this blog even casually knows that Union Square Venture’s Fred Wilson is one of my favorite bloggers. He somehow writes every day,
What Starbucks Learned About Learning
As part of our 2010 brown-bag series of workshops, Redfin on Friday hosted Christine McHugh to talk about what she learned about training folks in
Synchronous/Asynchronous Switching with Varnish
When your webapp is serving up content that’s expensive to generate, you may want to serve it up asynchronously- via AJAX calls. This is particularly
The Hangover
Redfin has hardly been an advocate for real estate tax credits. When the original first-time home-buyer credit was set to expire last November, we urged
ESI and Caching Trickery in Varnish
Varnish is a high performance, flexible, open source HTTP accelerator. We started using Varnish at Redfin in our last major release, a few weeks ago.
Engineer-to-Engineer Talk: How and Why Twitter Uses Scala
To kick off our San Francisco series of engineer-to-engineer lectures on new technologies and interesting problems in consumer software, we invited in the Great Alex