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 automation platform for stock, commodity, and currency trading. This platform will soon be available as a service licensed to select investment funds.

For more information see: 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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Some notable links from my delicious bookmarks related to things I’m currently working on:

- The ME Awards 2008 | London | Mobile Entertainment

http://www.mobile-ent.biz/me-awards

- WURFL

http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/

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Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.

The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!

via: indeed.com

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