What kept me busy the last months

I proudly present you the "Stock Pilot", a tool for simplifying research on stocks.

This is what happens when a programmer shows interest in stock research ;)

I developed it out of my observation that researching stocks takes too many user interactions,

and that bookmarking finance portals is not very helpful in getting arranged with all those 

pages and companies.

The addon covers the 5.000 largest US stocks, very soon up to 10.000 stocks will be supported. Working samples and the actual coverage can be accessed here:

http://twoiq.s3.amazonaws.com/testedstocks.html

The technical background is very interesting and features different technologies:

• Firefox Add-On for recognising the finance portal and the "context" of researched company (Boris Ruf did an excellent job implementing this part, please also check out his awesome "FootieFox" add-on, which provides Soccer scores for over 200 leagues and cups of 60 countries - live and almost instantly: http://www.footiefox.com
  
• Web-Crawling Agents for retrieving the neccessary mappings
  
• Amazon S3 for providing reliable storage
  

Please download it here

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/9475

If you like it, then vote on addons.mozilla.org - if not let me hear about your experiences, maybe I can help by improving...

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Code Snippets
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Coding Habits
A collection of simple rules which should ultimately simplify programming, especially by reducing the downside of a programmer's work experience: Cut the frustrating hours of searching bugs with deep trackdowns to half by adopting some simple habits. Suited for novice programmers.
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As a newbie in blogging I'll try to record my explorations in blogging habits and tools. Suitable for novice bloggers
Tries to cover the whole blogging ecosystem

GTalk with Java

At work we started to interest in establishing a chat bot, which would serve as a more intuitive substitute for all those workflow related emails and also success / error notifications from our scheduling system... Then I found this:

Smack is an Open Source XMPP (Jabber) client library for instant messaging and presence. A pure Java library, it can be embedded into your applications to create anything from a full XMPP client to simple XMPP integrations such as sending notification messages and presence-enabling devices

http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/smack/index.jsp

It worked nearly perfect with our GTalk Accounts, the only thing I had to find out is that version 3.04 won't work, so I used 3.02 instead

Happy Birthday, 01-Infinity

This is the first post on 01-Infinity... The plan was to release at 01-Jan-2008, but I did not make it, therefore the birthday of this post is not as beautiful as it could be...

This blog is all about information technology... especially tools, the environment as a whole and software architecture are focussed. Technically Java, .net and SQL SERVER are in the spotlight

Welcome, hope to see you often here.