A-Team Research has released a special report called: Machine Readable News and Algorithmic Trading. Continue reading "Machine Readable News and Algorithmic Trading" »
Monday, October 26. 2009
Machine Readable News and Algorithmic Trading
Bottom Line on Security in Windows 7, and Some Thoughts on MultiTouch
From SANS NewsBites vol. 11 Num. 84, 2009-10-23, NewsBites editorial board member John Pescatore says: Continue reading "Bottom Line on Security in Windows 7, and Some..." »
Saturday, October 17. 2009
Trader Urgency Indicator
In the LinkedIn Group Automated Trading Strategies, Alpesh Patel posted a Trader Urgency Indicator: Continue reading "Trader Urgency Indicator" »
Memory Leak Detection in MSVC 2008 C++
In Visual Studio, when building debug releases, I seem to recall that memory leak detection was automatically enabled. In Visual Studio 2008, memory leak detection is not automatically enabled. Code will need to be added to the source files to make it available. Continue reading "Memory Leak Detection in MSVC 2008 C++" »
Wednesday, October 14. 2009
Boost BJam Updated
With the version 1.40 of Boost, library names are decorated differently. To keep the old style library decorations and naming style, the option "--layout=tagged" should work. So from my 2008/10/10 Boost Build Article, my typical command line should be: Continue reading "Boost BJam Updated" »
Sunday, October 11. 2009
Traceroute Methods
Traceroute, in a nutshell, is about iteratively sending packets to the network with specific TTL (Time To Live) settings. The first round of packets uses a TTL of 1. The second uses a value of 2. The values are adjusted upwards each iteration until the destination responds, or the maximum number of hops has been evaluated. Continue reading "Traceroute Methods" »
Thursday, October 1. 2009
Determining your Dominant Eye
When I was shooting video a few days ago, a couple of questions were going through my head. One question was that of wondering if one should keep both eyes open when viewing through the view finder. If one is to keep both eyes open, the second question to arise was: which eye to use? Is there a difference? Ok, three questions. Continue reading "Determining your Dominant Eye" »
Building Boost 1.40.0 on Debian Linux
Boost builds well on Linux. To get a clean build, I needed two libraries. With Python already installed, I needed to 'apt-get install python-dev'. The iostreams library needed the bzip2 libraries which can be installed through 'apt-get install libbz2-dev'. Continue reading "Building Boost 1.40.0 on Debian Linux" »