Does anyone use K or Kdb outside financial arena?
Does anyone use K or Kdb outside financial arena? If so what have you used it for. ...
finance
looking for an intraday stock quote feed
I have an application which needs to get intraday stock quotes on several assets (indices, commodities etc'). I want to be able to query the data in HTTP and get it as CSV/XML format. Now, I'd like to be able to ask the data provider for example what was the last bid/ask/price on GE (General Electric) at 4:00PM, and ask it in let's say...
Visual Studio Visual Basic 2010/ Function & Sub & For Loop
For example, input values are Cost = 1250, Salvage = 150, Life 5. Then the output I want is: $500.00 $300.00 $180.00 $108.00 $12.00 However, the program outputs: $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 P.S. This is for the DDB Also, how could I add numbers before each values like 1 $500.00 2 $300.00 3 $180.00 4 $108.00 5 $12.00 Thank yo...
Calling search gurus: Numeric range search performance with Lucene?
I'm working on a system that performs matching on large sets of records based on strings and numeric ranges, and date ranges. The String matches are mostly exact matches as far as I can tell, as opposed to less exact full text search type results that I understand lucene is generally designed for. Numeric precision is important as the da...
OFX -- Second Level Security?
We're working on a site that will make use of the OFX standard to provide access to customer financial data. However, for security we make use of secret question/secret answer, machine tagging, etc. Does the OFX standard provide any mechanisms for security beyond just the simple username/password? I've taken a look at the schema and s...
creating a fully functioned e-commerce website
hi I have created about 4 e-commerce websites during the last few year. But they were all dommy sites whereby when the users checked out their items, they did not get to give their account detailes therefore, there wasn't any transactions made (though, i was about to keep stock and count of what was purched) now, i recieved a real pro...
Is “Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models” Still A Good Book To Use For Its Subject Matter Today?
Is "Analysis Patterns: Reusable Object Models" by Martin Fowler (published 1996) still a good book to use for the content it covers? Are there other good books that cover the same content? Are there more up-to-date books? P.S. Would like answers explaining why it is a good book, or why the alternative or additional books are good books...