Wilgus Associates brand new Drupal real estate system was launched today utilizing RETS real estate technology. This will be the first of many sites to utilize a harmonious marriage between the power of Drupal and data feeding from RETS no matter what your vendor (Innovia, Trend, Rappatoni etc).
It works, it’s fast, it’s scalable and configurable. It was built right. It’s smart. No hard coded hacks required. No verbose/over-complicated SQL necessary. We had a plan, we architected it and executed it. Development issues were assessed and addressed instead of throwing more code at the problem. Coming in at a lean ~900 lines of code, it’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever built and a huge improvement over the previous Coldfusion system we had.
It doesn’t matter if we didn’t do it first. It only matters that we do it better. We are. I can really hang my hat on this because we aren’t rebranding bloated CMSRealty, or passing off a crufty propriety Coldfusion platform. We own this, it’s ours, and there’s a huge sense of satisfaction in knowing that.
What’s next? Rebuild it! The thing about web development is when you solve a problem, you immediately find a better way to solve it in the next iteration of code. I’ve got plans drawn and features defined. This is such a breeze.
I fixed my iPod, I became an uncle today, I’m building quality systems. I guess you could say I’m a happy to be alive person!
Haters, keep on hating. The comments that get back around to me and the conversations that happen at competing businesses amuses me. Delaware can be a pretty ridiculous place sometimes.
