I was privileged to take part in the “Hack the App” session during the Inman Connect event last week.   It gave me some insights into alternative ways of building products for the real estate sector and particularly the role open source could play in…

Props to Ari Summer for releasing an open source CLI (command line interface) for querying RETS servers and searching metadata. The gem is built on top of the rets gem, which handles the actual querying and parsing of the RETS server requests. You can download and clone the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/summera/retscli…

There are many, many people in the real estate industry who have WordPress powered websites. Most of those know there are two arms of WordPress. WordPress.org (self hosted, open source) and WordPress.com (hosted, not open source). The big news today is that WordPress.com is now open…

Regulars know that I’ve written about the idea of a “Hacker News for Real Estate“. I still think it would be cool if something like that existed, and had a community using it daily. The “community” aspect of it is easier said than done of…

The coders reading, would be wise to take note that Trulia released some open source code today — the Trulia Java RETS Client. It is an open source RETS data feed importer — meaning it should vastly speed up the time it takes to start working…