Build Sinatra & Padrino Apps in the Cloud with Nitrous.IO
Singing With Sinatra & PadrinoI'm in the process of building a web application in Ruby on Rails (Appraisal Flow) that makes it easy for appraisers to manage their appraisal business from anywhere....
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Appraisal Flow Early Access
Image credit: Daily MailTame Appraisal ChaosFor quite some time I've felt that there's got to be a better way for us appraisers to manager our workflow process. Most of us have been making due by...
View ArticleCRE Listing & Marketing Tools - Introduction
While my primary focus is technology in the context of commercial appraisal, I like to keep an eye on what commercial brokers are doing and the tools they're using. Real estate technology innovation...
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Resources for learning Ember
Image credit: creativeprojectGetting StartedRecently I've been learning a really neat framework for "creating ambitious" client-side web applications called Ember and thought I'd share a few resources...
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Comp Comparisons made easy with SquareFeet.io
Image credit: CRE App ReviewMany new modern CRE tech tools have come out over the last few years. However, it seems most of these focus on listing and marketing tools for brokers. But what about those...
View ArticleWhy you should let CDNs host your common assets for Free
tl;dr: If you have a site or web application and are hosting common asset libraries yourself, you're doing it wrong. What you should be doing is utilizing one of the free CDNs like CDNjs to host and...
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Appraisal Flow Early Access Is Here!
Appraisers spend way too much time keeping their job-logs current, juggling calendars and dealing with daily email-overload. What they'd rather be doing is winning new business, delivering reports on...
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A low cost 1-800 Number for your Real Estate Business
Photo credit: netcelerateI'm currently in the process of launching a product to help real estate appraisers manage their work flow and needed a phone system. While email and collaboration tools have...
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Introducing Ember Wings
Image credit: flying-hamster-of-doom tshirtA starting place for building ambitious Ember applications with Brunch.ioWhile I've been getting into Ember for building client-side web applications, most of...
View ArticleUse the App Namespace for Rails-Ember Projects
Perhaps one of the largest real world uses cases for Ember apps are their integration with Ruby on Rails. This make sense as some of the core contributors come from the Rails community. Several...
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Why your Landing Page should be a Static Site
The new AppraisalFlow.comA Twitter Conversation@appraisalflow is faster than 95% of all websites according to Pingdom with a 614 ms load time http://www.appraisalflow.com@appraisalflow dang it is fast!...
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Padrino Asset Pipeline the Easy Way
While most of my experience has been with Rails, I keep find myself coming back to Sinatra due to its simplify and concise DSL. I especially like how Sinatra handles routing. But being a minimalistic...
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2014 New Years Resolution: Upgrade Your Browser
Photo credit: www.math.ubc.caAncient TechnologySince the time of the Babylonians people have welcomed the new year by setting goals and making resolutions. While this tradition might be ancient, your...
View ArticleAppraisal Flow - Open for Business and New Home Page
"Using a spreadsheet to manage our appraisal business just wasn't cutting it" - This quote is something we often hear from customersHopefully everyone had a great holiday season and is excited about...
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Free (and low-cost) Mobile Internet with Freedom-Pop
As appraisers and real estate consultants many of us are on the road a good bit of the work week. As our tools are becoming increasingly digital, having a connection to the web in the field is very...
View ArticleAppraisal Flow Reliability Report (And why the Cloud is safer)
tl;dr: skip to bottom to see the Appraisal Flow reliability report.One of the most common questions asked by appraisers interested in integrating Appraisal Flow into their practice is, “what is the...
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Ruby after Rails: Building a RESTful API with Grape & Napa - Pt. 1...
Out of the box, Ruby on Rails allows you to be very productive aided by great documentation and a significant library of Ruby & Rails gems maintained by a very active and open community. Since...
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