Kelsey, a Product Manager (PM) intern here at Redfin over the summer, took a non-traditional approach to writing about her summer internship – she created a mock-up. We’ve been sitting on it for months while we published posts by other interns describing their impact, their pre-Redfin identity crises, past lives in biostatistics, and how there’s… Read More
Using the Eventbrite API to automate email promotions At Redfin, the Marketing team contacts customers all over the country about upcoming classes and events near them. We don’t send a lot of email to each recipient – nobody likes spam – but we do send a great deal of small campaigns each week, and… Read More
A while ago, we updated our mobile app to be compatible with iOS 6 and iPhone 5. While we were working with the latest Xcode that comes with SDK 6, we found a strange behavior in MKMapKit’s regionThatFits method. In MKMapView, a region is an area defined with a lat/long coordinate as the center and a span… Read More
Here at Redfin, we undertook a rather large project to redesign one of our most visited pages: the details of a home. This was no easy task but one of the main choices we made early on in the redesign was to fully embrace javascript for handling all of our view code. While this approach… Read More