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A Neat Little CSS Hack: Duplicates in Chained Selectors 17 Jul 2013 | 02:39 am
Last Friday I gave a presentation on CSS at lunch. At one point, as I was knee-deep in the section talking about chaining selectors to increase specificity, one of our crack QA engineers asked a quest...
Two Weeks with iOS Development 2 Jul 2013 | 12:43 am
Here at Redfin we have an awesome mobile team who does all of the features for our iPhone, iPad and Android apps. They are a relatively small team, and as you can imagine they have a lot of feature re...
Redfin hosts Seattle Startup Weekend 2013 12 Jun 2013 | 12:26 am
54 hours. For many, that might be enough time for a relaxing trip to the beach or a weekend with friends, but for the 106 developers, designers, and businesspeople who descended on Redfin’s headquart...
Runtime Feature Checks at Redfin 22 May 2013 | 04:36 am
A little over a year ago, the engineering team here at Redfin made a big change: we switched from shipping major versions of the code once every two months to shipping once every three weeks (with onl...
Promoting Education with “20 Percent” 24 Apr 2013 | 10:15 pm
One of the major perks of working on the engineering team at Redfin is the privilege to take on side projects in addition to the day-to-day assignments. We call it our “quarterly objectives,” where ea...
Life with New Relic 9 Apr 2013 | 03:10 am
Improving performance is awesome. As a web developer, there is a unique satisfaction knowing a page now loads in half the time, or spends less time accessing databases. However, improving a page takes...
It’s a Red, Red, Red, Red World 26 Mar 2013 | 08:32 pm
Viewing the World Through Red-Colored Glasses If you’re a frequent visitor to our site, you may have noticed something different about the page today. After years of living with a blue color scheme we...
Recap: Seattle JS Meetup @ Redfin HQ 16 Mar 2013 | 04:44 am
After a very successful night of hosting the Seattle Scalability Meetup few weeks back, we decided to host another one! This time, we hosted the Seattle JS Meetup. Just like last time, we had an incre...
Debugging in the Browser 6 Mar 2013 | 12:02 am
If you’re new to Web development, I highly recommend learning how to use a few different browser’s developer tools. I came from a background of mostly Java, and learning javascript can be tricky since...
Recap: Seattle Scalability Meetup @ Redfin HQ 2 Mar 2013 | 05:29 am
Redfin Engineering had an incredible time hosting the Seattle Scalability Meetup earlier this week. In the past, we’ve had celebrity guest speakers give talks in our San Francisco office, but we’ve ju...
