September 30, 2021
After touring open houses in Fraser Valley's Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), seeing the pent-up demand for detached housing in rural neighbourhoods first-hand didn't come as any surprise. Considering new listings...
September 23, 2021
“"Vancouver has proven that a city can grow and prosper and still become a green capital — a global leader in addressing climate change." – City of Vancouver” Pictured above...
September 16, 2021
“"The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable and sustainable future. That's our North Star." – Marc Lore” What does one do when they become a billionaire? Build...
August 26, 2021
I had the pleasure of visiting a theatre again—the first time since Covid hit. Park Theatre is one of Vancouver's oldest, which opened in 1941, and passed through multiple owners...
August 12, 2021
“"Born from an idea of three-dimensional living, Fifteen Fifteen introduces horizontality to an urban tower." – Bosa Properties” Overview • Developed by Bosa Properties • 202 units • 42 stories...
May 22, 2021
eXp World Holdings, Inc. capped off its 2021 shareholder summit in the EXPI Campus, with world-renowned speakers from all walks of life sharing their journeys to success. The list included...
May 14, 2021
“"In a metropolitan region where expansion from the core is still taking place, predominantly on a horizontal plane, older urban service centres on the metropolitan fringe demand consideration as foci...
February 01, 2021
eXp Realty, The Real Estate Cloud Brokerage, is the fastest-growing global residential real estate company, and the largest by geography in North America. The international LLC was founded in 2009...
December 22, 2020
Action Mailbox is a feature introduced in Rails 6 that enables you to route incoming emails to controller-like mailboxes. It opens up interesting use cases for how you can deal...
November 26, 2020
Software as a service (SaaS) nowadays makes it easy to integrate e-commerce solutions into your application, and nothing comes close to the capabilities of Stripe. Founded in 2010 by Patrick...
October 30, 2020
““He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” - Socrates” The District of Squamish is only a 45-minute...
October 11, 2020
“mort-gage (old french) noun1. Death Pledge” CMHC released a publication on Mortgage Data Standards–analyzing the impact of initiating a system of data standards in the Canadian mortgage industry. One aspect...
September 30, 2020
From laying off 35% of its employees in April, to becoming a publicly traded company valued at $4.8 billion via merger with Social Capital Hedosophia in September, Opendoor has been...
September 10, 2020
“"A framework to organize, communicate, and understand the science of our world." – Esri” Global real estate is an asset class more valuable than all stocks, shares, and securitized debt...
August 22, 2020
“"We believe that databases need to excel at more than simple selects to be useful for complex tasks, and our positive experiences with PostgreSQL has done nothing but reinforce that...
August 04, 2020
“"Once one software solution demonstrates it is valuable, the customer base will consolidate around that company for all its software needs." – a16z” a16z released an article on how SaaS...
July 31, 2020
Good designers are hard to come by—it can be a costly process to find the right candidate, and you may end up paying for work you aren't satisfied with. Now...
July 01, 2020
““Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks...
June 14, 2020
Big data in real estate is a prime use case for real-time stream processing—a programming paradigm that allows us to instantaneously respond to data as it arrives. It is the...
June 02, 2020
Implementing authentication for third-party access is no small feat, but is imperative in order to compete in a complex API economy and expand business capabilities. With every application, securing protected...
May 17, 2020
Rails 6 shipped with the ability to use multiple databases in one application, making automatic connection switching as simple as adding a connects_to method in the respective class. To go...
May 14, 2020
Launch Academy presented a webinar on everything you need to know about the Industrial Research Assistance Program (IRAP)—a cross-Canada network of 255 industrial technology advisors, with $300 million in support...
May 08, 2020
I love to program in Ruby as well as Python, and AWS Lambda functions provide the perfect solution to combine both languages' capabilities without additional server configuration. The aws-sdk-lambda library...
May 06, 2020
Managing large quantities of real estate data is computationally intensive, and well-suited for background processing. The task involves importing thousands of MLS® listings into a Redis in-memory data structure store,...
April 24, 2020
“"Maintainable code is more important than clever code." – Guido van Rossum, creator of Python” During this lockdown, I've been spending time taking online courses, specifically in the areas of...