Tales from a Trading DeskNoise from an Investment BankTraders and Software Engineers- November 9, 2005 A colleague has a few interesting comments about the "good old days". Although Marc is correct in that often there is a degree of separation between the traders and the software engineers, I think he missing the point that there are still lots of software engineers who work extremely closely with the traders. In my current client (different from Marc's), I sit opposite a number of quant type software engineers who are talking dailyhourly to the traders. I know of numerous...http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/09/430048.aspx Blogging in the Financial Times- November 7, 2005 Herehttp://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/07/429746.aspx WinFX Community Technology Preview (CTP)- November 6, 2005 Are we going to get a refresh of WinFX for Visual Studio 2005 RTM Unless I'm mistaken, the last WinFX preview was in September for VS 2005 beta 2http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/06/429674.aspx LINQ- November 6, 2005 It was excellent to see Microsoft refresh the LINQ Tech Preview for VS 2005 RTM. LINQ is cool technology. The only downside today is that fact that we will probably have to wait 1+ years to see it released as part of VS 2006-7. class Employee public Employee(String name, String...http://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/06/429673.aspx Web 2.0 API- November 4, 2005 This site has a pretty good list of API's currently availablehttp://weblogs.asp.net/mdavey/archive/2005/11/04/429491.aspx |