Whoops, I’m on Hackernews
Yesterday my post on Nasdaq ITCH made it onto Hackernews. I got over 1700 uniques, and 16 comments on Hackernews (all surprisingly nice for my level of knowledge on the subject). I have no idea if my site handled the traffic well, as I wasn’t watching and I have little more then Google Analytics watching the site. I feel a little uneasy about it though. I have this site to force myself to write. Hopefully [...]
Nasdaq ITCH
I recently read through Veryon’s posts on bootstrapping a low latency HFT and I was intrigued. I had really thought that all automated trading was simply watching stock prices, comparing to different algorithms, and making decisions. I didn’t see any reason why you would need low latency or anything like that. I learned a lot. I like the idea of doing things fast and using algorithms that I never get to use during my normal [...]
CloudFoundry Python Support
I am very interested by VMWare’s CloudFoundry Platform solution because it is open to any infrastructure, including private clouds. Its also open source, and there are many people involved in building it up. It is built on Ruby, and therefore has its strongest roots in the Ruby community, but there are also some Python folks involved. I went to Garethr’s Github page (his blog is here) to check out his additions to CloudFoundry. He has [...]
Keeping Freelance Programmers Happy
I have been getting a extreme amount of work accomplished over the past few months, and apparently real work and blog posts are inversely related. So I wanted to try to share at least a small something. I have been working with many freelancers, and have been acting as a freelancer, for a little while now. I’ve noticed that freelancers tend to leave projects unless a few specific things are happening. I want to continue [...]
Google vs Microsoft
Google and Microsoft seem to be pretty pissed that they are grabbing each other’s information. Even on a personal level they are tweeting about it (Techcrunch details). Of course both companies are building their search platforms by capturing our information and providing it to marketers to provide relevant ads. But when they do it to each other it gets personal….. Anways I’d also like to reference this article and say Stop Using -Gate at the [...]
