{"id":11805,"date":"2010-04-22T09:15:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11805"},"modified":"2010-04-22T09:15:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T16:15:22","slug":"whats-joy-to-a-bloodhound-work-of-course-heres-that-hard-working-bloodhound-praxis-applied-to-the-problem-of-having-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11805\/whats-joy-to-a-bloodhound-work-of-course-heres-that-hard-working-bloodhound-praxis-applied-to-the-problem-of-having-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s joy to a Bloodhound? Work, of course. Here’s that hard-working Bloodhound praxis applied to the problem of having fun."},"content":{"rendered":"

I built FreePhoenixMLSSearch.com<\/a> from an API that FBS Systems — creators of the FlexMLS system — made available last year. I may be the only person taking advantage of this interface. I don’t know of anyone else in Phoenix who is, in any case.<\/p>\n

That much is cool, and the API, along with Flex’s general philosophical approach to software openness, enabled me to build a very robust search tool, much more robust than anything you can buy from IDX vendors. Still better, I can extend my search power whenever I want, building “pre-fab” searches that solve problems that might not be intuitively obvious to more-casual users.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example: Doctors relocating to Phoenix<\/a> — may their names be legion! — can do a radius search from any Phoenix-area hospital. Always on-call? You can live within walking distance. Need to be to the hospital within 30 minutes? You can search within a 15-mile radius.<\/p>\n

My end of this stuff is all written by me, in PHP, with the code running on the SplendorQuest server. I can change the site whenever I want to, in the never-ending quest for better results.<\/p>\n

All that is fun, and this is a big part of Bloodhound life for me, building and refining the tools we use every day — on- and off-line. Everything that I’ve worked on over the past four years is available to me to make new tools, and I’m mixing and matching that stuff all the time. The number of engenu pages on our sites is enormous by now, but the number of engenu-like<\/em> pages runs to the tens of thousands. Even now I’m working out how to use ScentTrail to auto-generate an engenu-editable cloud-based transaction management site for every client we touch.<\/p>\n

That idea — the equation of software with control — is something that I should write about. But not today. For now, Bloodhounds just want to have fun.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

That image is a screen shot from Twitter. Every time someone runs a search from FreePhoenixMLSSearch.com, a Tweet is auto-posted summarizing that search. There is search-engine juice to be had from Twitter, but this is just dumbass fun Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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