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October 27, 2015
There's a great interview with our own Matt DeGennaro by Paul Krill of Infoworld that came out a few days ago. The topic is Tungsten.js, our awesome framework that 'lights up' the DOM with fast, virtual-DOM-based updates, React-style, and can be integrated with Backbone.js and pretty much whatever other framework you want. It's spiffy, it has a logo,
October 26, 2015
Scott Kirsner has a terrific piece about tech talent wars in Boston, that was in Beta Boston on Friday, and then in the print edition of the Boston Globe on Sunday, October 26th. It features Wayfair Labs, which is our hiring and onboarding program for level 1 engineers in most of the department (a few specialized roles excepted). I am the director of it, so if you have any questions, please reach out.
August 11, 2015
When you write your first web application, chances are you’re going to query a database. When you write it in PHP, chances are it’ll look like this:
July 30, 2015
Performance is top priority here at Wayfair, because improved performance means an improved customer experience. A significant piece of web performance is the time it takes to render, or generate, the markup for a page. Over the last several months we've worked hard to improve the render performance on our customer facing sites, and ensure it's easier for our engineers to write code that results in page renders with optimal performance.
June 16, 2015
Cari, who is a developer on our SEO team, just wrote a Chrome extension that's up on both github (https://github.com/wayfair/nofollow_highlighter) and the Chrome web store (click here to add to Chrome). If you don't know this subject matter, here's a classic explanation from Matt Cutts of Google, from a few years ago: https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/. A lot has changed in SEO since then, but this basic idea has become a constant in internet life: if you're compensating people for a promotional activity, they need to make that clear to Google with a 'nofollow' link. Here's an example of a blogger who is doing it right, with a disclaimer saying she was compensated with a gift card, to keep the FTC happy, and a 'nofollow' link with the yellow highlight from our plug-in, indicating that the link properly warns Google not to pass page rank, or whatever they're calling 'Google mojo' these days, through to the destination. The other links on the page don't show up color-coded one way or the other, because they go to domains we don't care about.
June 10, 2015
Come hang out with us tomorrow, June 11th, from 4 pm to 9 pm, at TechJam. Not to be too transparent, but we're hiring! We will be at booth 43, bostontechjam@wayfair.com, #btj2015. Steve Conine, Wayfair Founder and CTO, and I will be there, along with a bunch of our colleagues in Wayfair engineering.
June 10, 2015
I can't believe I'm writing a post about vim and emacs in the year 2015! But our very own Aaron Bieber just spoke at the vim meetup on how he's been secretly using emacs all the time for a few months, and is now coming out of the closet as an emacs user. Vim vs. emacs is an eternal holy war, and pretty much the opposite of a topic that I would normally want to write about. But Aaron is the opposite of a holy warrior, as anyone at Wayfair Engineering can tell you. Here's the announcement of the talk: http://www.meetup.com/The-Boston-Vim-Meetup/events/222395931/, here's his personal blog post on the topic: http://blog.aaronbieber.com/blog/2015/01/11/learning-to-love-emacs/, and here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc, with cool jazz!
April 24, 2015
Matt DeGennaro and Andrew Rota of our Javascript team recently spoke at the BostonJS meetup on a library we have written called Tungstenjs, which we have opensourced today. It takes the fast-virtual-dom-update idea from React.js and makes it usable with other frameworks, including Backbone.js. It ships with a Backbone adapter. There's a server-side component too, using npm and Mustache templating, but perhaps I should just let the 'readme' tell you: https://github.com/wayfair/tungstenjs. We've been using it on Wayfair, and it's awesome.
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.