Category Archives: Technology

Today I spent about 12 hours getting to grips with a number of technologies: codeigniter – a Model View Controller PHP development toolkit simplepie – a RSS feed reader artisteer – a page design tool that generates two sets of output … Continue reading →

Welcome all to 2009! Today, I started on a new venture: a website and an ebook on the credit crunch and how to survive it. The site is www.creditlust.com/blog . Today, I bought the domain from http://joker.com set up the … Continue reading →

When financial data is supplied by a vendor it tends to be keyed on that vendor’s own identifier e.g. Bloomberg unique identifer, Moodys issue id, etc. Market identifiers such as SEDOL, CUSIP and ISIN are sometimes but not always supplied. As part of the research … Continue reading →

Not good. A week has passed and no blog entry. What minor events have happened in my life? Well, I remortgaged with the same lender with an interest-only mortgage to start accumulating funds for some renovations to the house: new … Continue reading →

It is the weekend and have I have just walked the dogs around the ponds and am settling down to spend an hour on my blog. My accompaniment is two deep rounds of snoring with the odd pathetic yelp as the … Continue reading →

Not the catchiest of titles but this was the problem I spent most of the day struggling with. Try passing a java object to an oracle stored procedure and and it won’t work if you use a JDBC driver with pooled connections. However, … Continue reading →