Latest Entries

pyPdf — A pdf library for python. A little dated but worth a look.

Sat 28 Aug 10 7:32 p.m.

Django-geoportail — This is a web portal managed by the French National Geographic Institute. They provide high-resolution maps and aerial photos of French territories, as well as several sets of geolocalized data. They use django, geodjango and openlayers and provide a javascript API.

Tue 24 Aug 10 11:14 p.m.

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Dabeaz LLC — David Beazley web site with lots of interesting python articles and code. He is the creator of several open-source packages such as ply. He also runs training classes with focus on concurrency and is the author of the Python Essential Reference book.

Sat 21 Aug 10 2:17 p.m.

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What britons do with their day

The statistics from regulator Ofcom suggest people in the UK spend seven hours a day watching TV, surfing the net and using their mobile phones.

by Luca Sbardella Thu 19 Aug 10 10:02 a.m.

Hidden features of Python - Stack Overflow — What are the lesser-known but useful features of the Python programming language? A comprehensive list.

Sun 15 Aug 10 9:55 p.m.

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Collective2 — A market place for trading strategies. Once a strategy is developed, the website traks its profit and loss and provides a platform for customers to use existing strategies. It offeres several APIs.

Wed 11 Aug 10 4:22 p.m.

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Nuclear Phynance — Forum dedicated to quantitative finance, algo-trading and risk. Some useful discussions and a big enough community.

Wed 11 Aug 10 1:44 p.m.

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Github behind a draconian firewall

Sometimes there is a need to work with sub-optimal technologies such as a windows operative system behind a ssh-blocking draconian firewall. How worse can it get?

by Luca Sbardella Tue 10 Aug 10 10:51 a.m.

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xignite — An on-demand market data feed provider. It covers interest rate,stocks, corporate actions, stock options, currencies and much more. Fairly priced and you pay only what you use. It provides SOAP and HTTP APIs as well as a 60 days free trial. Examples of clients to access data are available for some languages (C#, Perl, PHP and VB6). I will write a Python client.

Mon 09 Aug 10 1:31 p.m.

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CRAN - Package PerformanceAnalytics — Another great R package for econometric and timeseries analysis. I'm using it in conjunction with the zoo package to develop a Python timeseries library based on rpy2.

Wed 21 Jul 10 9:05 p.m.

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I live in London and occasionally spend time in Rome and around Italy where I am originally from. I like mathematics, technology, economics, trading, politics, chess and playing football.

I work as strategist and developer at Quantmind, quantitative finance wizard.