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Roger, Engineering Lead - who has written 13 posts on Trulia Blog - Real Estate Blog.

Hi, I'm Roger. I've been with Trulia since the early days, and I'm still having a blast every single day. Trulia is a great company full of incredibly talented folks. Come join us!

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Software Developers Should Work at Trulia: The Top 10 List

Tuesday, February 12, 2008

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By now most people interested in real estate have heard of Trulia-the-real-estate-startup, Trulia-the-slicker-than-whale-snot-Web-site, and Trulia-the-talent-magnet. But unless you’ve been on the inside, it might not be obvious that there’s also a Trulia-the-cool-as-heck-workplace lurking underneath our glittery Web 2.0 threads that’s a heaven for us engineer types. Sure, I’m biased, having been with the company for [...]

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Trulia Voices and moderating… in moderation

Friday, November 16, 2007

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Having worked on Trulia Voices for a while and seen it grow into a vibrant community over just a few months, I’m still–nay, ever more–amazed at the group of people who have assembled on Trulia to talk about real estate. Housing is a very hot topic, and we’re seeing lots of questions about how to deal [...]

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Trulia at Web 2.0 Expo

Thursday, April 19, 2007

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This year’s Web 2.0 Expo was this week in beautiful San Francisco, and yours Truli(a) gave a workshop on Sunday, April 15th. It was a good crowd of 200 developers and assorted other techies. We talked about designing and building modern Web applications, with lots of hands-on examples drawn from Trulia, music site lala.com and [...]

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(Mis)adventures in home selling, part 3: The End

Thursday, March 15, 2007

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It is with a mix of celebratory joy and nostalgic longing that I said goodbye to my SoCal townhouse for good this morning. Escrow closed yesterday, and as of today I am no longer a homeowner. Having rented in the Bay Area for a year and a half, I should be used to no longer [...]

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(Mis)adventures in home selling, part 2

Thursday, March 8, 2007

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I heard every decade has its own housing bugaboo–the evil scary thing homebuyers are obsessed with when looking at home inspection reports. The 1980s had asbestos and radon gas, the 1990s had lead-based paint, and it seems the inspection scare du jour is mold. Sure, mold (and asbestos and lead and radon gas and some exotic [...]

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(Mis)adventures in home selling, part 1

Thursday, February 8, 2007

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After moving to the Bay Area about 18 months ago, it was time to shed my last ties to SoCal and put my lovely pre-Trulia townhouse on the market. Being the biggest housing bear in the company, I knew the halcyon days were over and suspected I’d probably have to live with a few lowball [...]

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Web 3.0: the return of desktop apps?

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

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Web 3.0 Predictions by a 1.0 Developer in a 2.0 World Developers have migrated to the Web en masse. The browser is now the development platform, and the most interesting product and UI innovations are happening on the Web, often under the marketing name “Web 2.0“. Desktop office programs have browser versions, like Google’s Docs and [...]

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