Body of work

I want to get this out before I head to Opening Day at Coors Field, I will come back and edit this text later.

Click below for an interactive display of my recent work (click the map), this idea came to me from reading about VisualCV through Guy Kawasaki.

Click to see interactive time based map of my last 3+ years of work

RETS Meeting Preview

I am off to Washington DC  in a couple weeks to attend a NAR sponsored meeting of Real Estate technologists advancing the Real Estate Transaction Standard.  RETS is a HTTP based standard for the exchange of Real Estate data.

During the April meeting there will be four change proposals.  In future posts I will take a moment to summarize and  debate the pros and cons of each change proposal.

If you count the meetings I have gone to with Zillow, Yahoo! Real Estate, Trulia and other active participants of the Schema workgroup I think I have traveled to 25 RETS meetings now.

I am particularly looking forward to the  programming competition at the DC meeting.  I am hosting again, as I have since 2004 when the torch was passed to me by the irreplaceable Bruce Toback.  With some luck I might even have something to present.  One idea I have is a redux of MILC and TIRED.  But I might have to wait until the Chicago meeting later in the year.  Depends on school and snow conditions

Stay tuned for a review of the four change proposals, right here.