Category Archives: Development

Using VieleRETS to download data

Posted on August 10, 2007 by jjunkin

I spent a long time messing with VieleRETS to try and download data from REIL. The short answer is that I failed to get it to work. I tried to debug the PHP code but was unable to identify why … Continue reading →

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Login to reil.com

Posted on June 11, 2007 by jjunkin

REIL.com uses digest authentication. I am using perl to pull down the data so first I need to login to the reil.com server with proper authorization. I was unable to find a lot of documentation on how this process works. … Continue reading →

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Access to MLS reil.com

Posted on June 11, 2007 by jjunkin

I have been working on a project to pull information from a local MLS service, reil.com. They provide MLS data for the San francisco Bay area such as Palo Alto and Menlo Park. I am building websites for some local Real Estate Agents that display current MLS … Continue reading →

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Working with the Zillow API

Posted on April 16, 2007 by jjunkin

We recently completed a website that displays property estimates using the data from http://zillow.com: http://www.estimatepropertyvalues.com Zillow provides excellent documentation on how to utilize their API’s which made is easy to configure. This application pulls zillow data in real time and displays it alongside and within … Continue reading →

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Googlemaps Geocoding API

Posted on March 17, 2007 by jjunkin

We recently completed a geocoding-caching system that geocodes (determines Latitude and Logitude) a user’s location input. This means that the user can type in a zip code, city/state or complete address/city/state/zip and the system will determine a Longitude and Latitude of the centerpoint of … Continue reading →

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YUI Yahoo User Interface

Posted on March 16, 2007 by jjunkin

For this new project we decided to work with the YUI (Yahoo User Interface) Javascript library. For the widgets provided, the YUI makes javascript development extremely fast and bug free. The documentation was extremly clear and contained plenty of examples.

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Catalyst Web Framework

Posted on January 15, 2007 by jjunkin

I have been using Perl for about 10 years now and I have always wanted to work with a nice Perl based framework. Catalyst is gathering momentum so I will be building some projects utilizing this new framework.

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