As part of Gossamer Threads’ ongoing commitment to sustainability, we’ve partnered with our landlord DeeCorp and fellow tenant TBWA\ to create a green roof on the building of our new office.
At the time, there was not much happening up on that flat tar & gravel expanse, but that was all to change soon enough!
Home Services Engine manages a massive, Gossamer Links-powered database of over 800,000 home service listings which allows its users to find the type of business they’re looking for in their neighborhood.
Delivering search results relevant to a user’s location quickly when you’re dealing with 7 gigabytes worth of listings from across the United States is no easy task, but Home Services Engine manages to return local businesses quickly and efficiently every time. Here’s how they do it, and how Gossamer Threads helped.
Waterfront Gossamer Station.
Photo by flickr user miss604.
Now it’s even easier for Gossamer Threadians to stream jubilantly to work each morning, with the opening of the much anticipated extension to Vancouver’s beloved light-rail system, the Skytrain. Per our request, the new line terminates literally a stone’s throw from our front door.
LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.
Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.
Name: Orlando Vazquez
Reason for being: just another Perl hacker
Quote to live by: Safety third!
We’ve had plenty of new faces join the Gossamer ranks in the past year, so we thought it was high time to do another one of our employee profiles!
Early speculation that Orlando was taller than yours truly turned out to be nothing but slander on the part of the office’s usual gossipers (*coughTarrincough*), but either way, there are now at least two gangly dudes in the office who love heavy metal.
