I’ve been studying up for my new job, which is beginning next Monday. Even though I’m going to be a Systems Administrator and not a programmer, I have a feeling I am going to need all the programming skills I can get my hands on to contribute the maximum to the database and product development [...]
Tag Archives: programming
Still trying to figure out how to use Oracle Berkeley DB
September 2, 2009
This stuff is pretty hard… I’m not sure yet if I should use BDB or BDB-JE (Java Edition). Currently watching: berkeley db tutorial video Currently reading: This interview The creator of Berkeley Database interviews her former PhD advisor, creator of Streambase. Currently reading: What Berkeley DB is not Excerpt: if a programmer can predict in [...]
BDB, Esper, Marketcetera – three more open source software to learn
August 31, 2009
I’m still working on our data import abilities, there seem to be occasionally dropped lines in the feed. I already have code to find the holes; I’m writing a script to fill them automatically. What would be even better would be figuring out why they are dropping, but I think to do that I will [...]
kdb+
August 26, 2009
I found a new favorite database system called kdb+ from Kx Systems. Users of this technology include Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. kdb+ is definitely the best out there. But the full version costs $250,000, so I won’t be able to use it.
First day back at work, a new problem
August 24, 2009
It’s only my first day back, and I’m already running into a big problems. I posted a couple weeks ago about getting our datafeed up and running, and before that about wanting to decide on a database. I’ve coded a bunch of scripts to download data every night, and I already have over 500mb of [...]