Chris Degiere and Associates

For the last quarter I have been focusing on a second developing business in the financial engineering and alternative investments space called Trading Technicians.

Our product is an algorithmic trading system portfolio and automated execution and monitoring platform for the stock, currency, and commodity futures markets.

For more information contact us via: http://tradingtechnicians.com

Well it’s been a busy few months with the new baby and new work taking most all of my time. How to quickly recap? How about a peek at my Delicious links or my Twitter stream.

Noteworthy Links

- Ext JS – Blog

http://extjs.com/blog/2008/03/31/implementation-spotlight-jama-contour/

- Ext + Java + Spring + DWR – Ext JS Forums

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5586

- Firebug Console Object and API

http://getfirebug.com/console.html

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I’ve been working with Maven a lot lately. One of my current projects involved migrating a complex Ant build to Maven using multiple modules, a ton of dependencies, and integration with a private remote repository hosted at Unfuddle (See: Subversion Help – Books, Plugins, and Hosting).

This book: Maven: The Definitive Guide has been indispensable throughout. In additional to the hardcopy, the folks at Sonatype are also maintaining an HTML and PDF version here.

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Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.

I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I  highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:

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There are a number of online emulators available to test your mobile web applications once they are deployed. Opera Mini has an online demo at http://www.operamini.com/demo/ for example.

When developing locally it’s helpful to do some functional and visual design and layout testing before deploying.

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