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Resourceful Routes in the Real World

Steve Saarinen — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:59:27 +0000

When designing a resourceful object hierarchy in Rails, often a single model has meaning in multiple different contexts. Take for example an application managing rental properties. This application has two main models, Properties and Tenants, which have obvious relationships with each other. These models also have value independent of this relationship. At WhitePages.com we are [...]

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Efficient Mobile APIs Using Apache Thrift

Owyn Richen — Wed, 08 May 2013 17:08:57 +0000

Reducing data consumption for the end customer is a paramount task when building a mobile app, and it was one of our biggest challenges with Current Caller ID. Since Current feeds information from social networks, news and weather, it naturally delivers a lot of data to clients. Our solution for reducing data was twofold: The [...]

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Foster mother & daughter reunited through WhitePages

Rebecca Carroll — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:58:21 +0000

Mother’s Day is upon us, and in addition to Mom and Grandma, we’d like to tell all the caregivers, role models and mentors we’ve had in our lives over the years—teachers, coaches, camp counselors, babysitters, aunts, nannies, neighbors and friends—thank you. For raising us, alongside our parents and family members; you’ve touched us in a [...]

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Paging Mother Earth

Rebecca Carroll — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 17:20:27 +0000

Earth Day is here once again. Yes, it’s that time of year when we think of the Earth and environment a bit more actively, and make earnest commitments to “go green” and even save some green on a day to day basis. Luckily, four Seattle area companies, Doxo, Concur, Clipboard & WhitePages, are making it easy to [...]

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Hey Silicon Valley: If You Like the Seattle Tech Community, then Join, Don’t Exploit

Alex Algard — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 18:04:48 +0000

After several of our team members participated in the last two Seattle Startup Weekend‘s, we at WhitePages were excited to cheer on the several returning WhitePagers at this weekend’s event. We were also excited to support it as a sponsor. This is one of those rare feel-good showcases of Seattle innovation that brings the whole [...]

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