{"id":323,"date":"2008-08-25T18:06:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/flex-spotted-on-tv\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2008-08-26T02:08:06","slug":"flex-spotted-on-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/flex-spotted-on-tv\/","title":{"rendered":"Flex spotted on TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/video\/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&#038;streamingFormat=FLASH&#038;referralObject=2611824&#038;referralPlaylistId=undefined\">video of a segment<\/a> that aired on Fox Business News about <a href=\"http:\/\/hotpads.com\">HotPads.com<\/a>, which is an online housing search website (rentals, sales, etc). As I was watching the clip I noticed that beautiful little preloader we&#8217;ve all come to know and love \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"http:\/\/hotpads.com\">HotPads<\/a> uses a custom map engine they developed in Flex (after porting an older Flash app). <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the screenshot that caught my eye:<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image322\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/screenshot070.jpg?resize=429%2C243&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"screenshot070.jpg\" height=\"243\" width=\"429\" class=\"imageframe\" style=\"border:1px solid black\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full video here:<\/p>\n<p>And if you haven&#8217;t checked out hotpads before, it&#8217;s pretty dope. In addition to seeing rental listings on a map, they let you see some cool heatmaps of various things like foreclosure rates, income and age levels, etc. And it&#8217;s Flex, so show some love people.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer or whatever:<\/strong> The guys who founded and run hotpads are friends of mine, I even did some work for them back a few years ago. I&#8217;ve got a little investment in the company that will one day either make me rich or hopefully at least buy me a six pack of beer. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a video of a segment that aired on Fox Business News about HotPads.com, which is an online housing search website (rentals, sales, etc). As I was watching the clip I noticed that beautiful little preloader we&#8217;ve all come to know and love \ud83d\ude42 HotPads uses a custom map engine they developed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flex","tag-hotpads"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}