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Stock data APIs, or proof that there’s always something to improve upon

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2 months ago
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Over the last few days, I’ve been working on a little side project, mainly to get familiar with some things that you’d find on a job advertisement.  PHP frameworks, Javascript, API development, the usual types of things. One of the things that I wanted to do is to use some financial API’s to collect some basic stock data. Biographical information, a brief stock performance history, a week or two at the most. Nothing that would be either immensely detailed, nor useful for any sort of data mining purpose. Figured there had to be some free to use API’s out there that had the usual traffic restrictions, but were otherwise well documented and useable.

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A shoutout to Taha Paksu

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3 months ago
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So after about three weeks that has felt like bad luck had taken up residence and wasn’t paying rent, I got some time to work on the ole blog again. And one of the first things that I wanted to do was to restore the album listing that I had in the previous version. So half empecting the multitude of errors and freakouts that it did a few weeks ago, I click on the activate link and….

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Raising my glass to the folks that saved technical Q&A online

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3 months ago
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Let’s take a trip down the IT memory lane. Back to around 2007, when developing applications to run on your cell phone was a brand new idea. Back then I used to do some PHP development on my own, a combination of having a lot of spare time and knowing that being a sys admin in a small town was not exactly a stable profession. And as a beginner back then, I’d run into a lot of “how the heck do I do that?” type questions. So back then, here’s a typical attempt to find the answers I seeked.

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Back to the desktop!, the 2011 edition: Foundations, power, and “fuel” arrive

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8 months ago
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Well now that we’ve looked at our options for the guts of our machine, let’s see what we can find bargain wise for where our componets will be living, and what will be keeping the lights on. Here’s the components: (more…)

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Back to the desktop!, the 2011 edition: The power within the box

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8 months ago
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So to start us off, we’ll need to have the main components that every desktop since the first PC has contained; a CPU, memory, and of course, a motherboard to house them all. Hard to have a computer running without it’s “engine” after all. So here’s what I’ve chosen for my build: (more…)

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