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Ben Clark

March 26, 2015
Andrew Rota and Matt DeGennaro of Wayfair Engineering are giving a talk on a Javascript framework we have written at Wayfair called 'Tungsten,' which shares goals and ideas with React.js but interoperates with Backbone, which we use heavily. It's at the BostonJS meetup tonight at Bocoup, with a $5 cover: http://www.meetup.com/boston_JS/events/221038649/, on a double bill with Calvin Metcalf. It should be a great night.
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November 4, 2014
Catchpoint is running an event today, called "WebPerf on Location Boston", part of a series of such events in different cities. It starts at 2, and our very own Jack Wood, Wayfair CIO, is speaking at 3:30. Details and the link to register are here. It's at Battery Ventures in the seaport area, and it should be an excellent afternoon.
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October 14, 2014
Andrew Rota, an engineer in our client technologies group, is speaking in a bit, at the CSS Dev conference in New Orleans, on "Web Components and Modular CSS #components". It's a great talk, about these emerging standards and what's possible to do with them. If you're there, check it out: http://cssdevconf2014.sched.org/. We'll post the links to slides and video when they come out.
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October 10, 2014
Wayfair is a gold sponsor of Barcamp Boston this weekend at Microsoft NERD in Cambridge. Quite a few of us will be there, some speaking. If you've never been, it's a great event.
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October 2, 2014
Here's our Frontline team at work, in our spiffy network operations center:
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August 25, 2014
Wayfair's mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the second of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair's mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair's new offices, 4 Copley Place, on Tuesday, September 9th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite signup, are at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-development-tech-talk-series-tickets-12526809023.
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July 28, 2014
Wayfair's mobile architect, Jeff Ladino, is giving the first of a series of tech talks, on Wayfair's mobile applications. The event will be held at Wayfair's new offices, 4 Copley Place, on August 5th, from 6 pm to 7:30. Pizza will be served. It should be a great talk, in our great new space. Details on the talk, and free Eventbrite signup, are at this link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mobile-development-tech-talk-series-tickets-12304949435.
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June 3, 2014
Wayfair engineering will be out in force at Boston TechJam 2014, on Thursday, June 12, 2014, at Boston City Hall Plaza, starting at 4 pm. We'll be in the middle row, one slot away from the beer tent, and we will have some fun stuff, including a giant game of Jenga. You can meet Steve Conine, co-founder, owner, chairman and CTO of Wayfair, as well as other engineering team members. If you don't know Wayfair engineering, we're an intense but friendly team of ~300 people, at the largest and fastest-growing e-commerce company in Boston. We used to call ourselves the biggest Boston tech company you've never heard of, but that's all changing fast. Come and hang out with us!
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December 19, 2013
PHP APC and Handling Dynamic Inheritance Opcodes
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