June 12, 2009 at 3:21 pm (dotnet, stock market)
Tags: prism, ta-lib, zedgraph
I was starting to do coding on generating Simple Moving Averages of Yahoo! Finance quotes when I found out that there already is an extensive technical analysis function library called TA-Lib.
Making use of what’s out there instead of reinventing the wheel, I’m going to use the following libraries / frameworks for Euclid:
Depending on the need for data persistence, I might also consider tossing in db4o object database into the mix.
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June 6, 2009 at 8:43 am (stock market)
On the side, I’ve started studying stock technical analysis to help in my investment decisions. My interest brought me to this nifty site, StockTA.com. It takes technical analysis indicators such as moving averages, highs and lows, MACD and the like, and provides quick indicators whether the stock is bullish or bearish.
The site is quite reliable, but I didn’t want to hinge my future investment decisions on the site, as it may just go away at any time. While I do have NinjaTrader, a stock analysis software with a free version which allows add-ons programmed in C#, I’d like to get a shot at developing my own stock analysis software.
I’m calling it Euclid, named after the stock predicting computer in the movie Pi.
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April 27, 2009 at 10:24 am (agile)
Curious about Agile web tools, I installed VersionOne’s Agile Team Edition (free for up to 10 users) and Trac.
VersionOne is a leading Agile Project Management tool, built with Scrum, XP and agile in mind. Trac is a bug/issue management system with a wiki and Subversion integration.
They both work alright on Vista. For V1, I had to reinstall my SQL Server 2005 Express Edition as it needed the Full-Text Search Service. For Trac, after fiddling around with installing Trac’s individual components and scratching my head with Python version compatibilities and component integration, I went for Visual SVN’s Trac installer which hooked up everything out of the box.
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April 21, 2009 at 9:57 am (rea)
While waiting for Pavel Hruby’s Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns book, I wanted to read up ahead to learn more about the REA paradigm. I found William McCarthy’s speaker presentation materials, which has both slides and audio recording. I plan to set aside time to go through the entire recording (2 hours), following it on the slides and taking notes. It is a very meaty presentation and I hope that it will give me a good headstart on the subject.
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April 18, 2009 at 9:40 am (agile)
I’ve always been paranoid about my home code. After doing regular backups at home on a spare hard drive, I always felt that I needed to have an offsite one.
When I discovered Live Mesh, I thought that this was the answer to my need. I immediately connected my project folder and my Subversion folder to the mesh (to have both in-progress and committed copies). The best part is that this is all done in the background. I love it!
It turns out somebody else had the same idea.
I prefer this approach over publicly hosted SVN services, which may require you to post your code publicly for free.
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April 16, 2009 at 11:40 am (accounting software)
I’ve given more thought about my side project’s application features after re-reading Getting Real by 37Signals. So, I went around and looked for Web 2.0 Accounting Apps and found this list of “the most awesome accounting and invoicing applications.” This list represents the anti-Quickbooks crowd, where the point is to simplify accounting software use and move away from the bloat.
They’re all on an ASP (application service provider) business model, delivered over the web. I’m thinking that the same principles should be applicable to rich client applications as well.
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April 7, 2009 at 2:08 pm (dotnet)
In line with my new side project, I have ordered two books from Amazon. I’m keen on getting things started on the right foot by following DDD (Domain Driven Design).
Expert C# 2008 Business Objects, which covers CSLA 3.6, written, of course, by Rockford Lhotka.
and Model-Driven Design Using Business Patterns, by Pavel Hruby, which is the best book so far on REA (Resource Event Agent).
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April 6, 2009 at 8:32 pm (personal)
I’m going analog in fleshing out my ideas with a limited edition Helvetica moleskine. It’s quite pricey for a small notebook, but considering that I’m going to work on this long-term idea, I figured it would justify shelling out a little extra to document my ideas on something “special”. (I’m also waiting for my order of the Maker’s Notebook.)
This is my on-the-go notebook. Currently, at 3 days old, it contains notes on:
You can probably get an idea what I’m coming up with.
On another note, I’ve resumed twitting and bought an MP4 player to listen to DotNetRocks while on the go.
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September 10, 2008 at 9:03 pm (dotnet)
Tags: frameworks, wpf
I must have been too busy with transitioning at work, this release escaped my radar. I’ve been playing around with the Smart Client Software Factory for Windows Forms and have gotten to like it. However, I found it quite clunky at times. So, I’m quite thrilled that they decided to rebuild the Composite Applications idea from the ground up, and even rebuilt the CAB-version for it, for WPF.
Prism, which is now called the Composite Application Guidance for WPF, is a more streamlined version of its predecessor. It discontinued its quite rigid approach of using WorkItems and Modules and kept it flexible, while at the same time allowing enough guidance for a best-practice approach.
The download package contains not only the framework but a reference implementation as well. The documentation initiates the user with the patterns involved and offers a good introduction to its technical design. No doubt Microsoft has learned from the user community on the steep learning curve of SCSF.
It’s about time that Patterns & Practices released a Composite Application framework that’s natively WPF. I’ve been waiting for it since the announcement of the now-defunct Acropolis.
(And guess what, now that this version has been released, the P&P guys are now working on the next one, which extends the framework to building composite applications on Silverlight!)
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August 16, 2008 at 10:35 am (dotnet)
I created a new social network for .Net Developers, called NET-DEV. The idea is to have a place to simply share what each one is up to and help each other out. Interesting stuff from YouTube, DotNet Rocks, and others are also posted there.
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