Financial Software
Mathematica Cookbook, 1st Edition
By Sal Mangano
As the leading software application for symbolic mathematics, Mathematica is standard in many environments that rely on math, such as science, engineering, financial analysis, software development, and many other fields. This cookbook provides practi...
[Publish Date: January 2010]
After the Goldrush: O'Reilly Money:Tech Explores Financial Tools for New ...
After the Goldrush: O'Reilly Money:Tech Explores Financial Tools for New Times: Call for Participation Now Open Sebastopol, CA, July 30, 2008--The second O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference will mine the new veins where technology and finance meet February...
[Publish Date: August 05, 2008]
MySQL Empowers Mission-critical Financial System: MySQL Conference & Expo ...
By Ryusuke Kajiyama
Learn why MySQL was chosen as core database in mission critical system for fund managers of financial firms. In this mission critical financial system, in which database manages more than 1TB and handles over 200 concurrent transactions per second, all operations of front office team are managed including positions, executions and capital management.
[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]
Freeing and Visualizing Financial Data: Web 2.0 Expo New York 2009 - ...
By Toby Segaran, Jesper Andersen
The SECs new XBRL format combined with community efforts will soon provide enough free financial data that hackers will be able to create interactions with data. We'll cover sources and ways that developers can use machine learning and visualization to explore financial data in novel ways, using techniques like multidimensional scaling, network visualization and variations on traditional charts.
[Publish Date: November 16, 2009]
Analysis 2009: The Financial Crisis Hits IT Hard - O'Reilly Broadcast
By Kurt Cagle
The recession that started in January 2008 looks to be four phased. The first phase, The housing collapse, actually started in August 2007. The financial meltdown hit in September 2008, and likely will continue through to March 2009 or so....
[Publish Date: January 06, 2009]
Speaker: Artur Bergman: Load Balancing, Uptime and Scalability: A ...
Artur Bergman, hacker and technologist at-large, is the VP of Engineering and Operations at Wikia. He provides the technical backbone necessary for Wikia's mission to compile and index the world's knowledge. He is also an enthusiastic apologist for federated identity and a board member of the OpenID Foundation. In past lives, he's built high volume financial trading systems, re-implemented Perl 5's threading system, wrote djabberd, managed LiveJournal's engineering team, and served as operations architect at Six Apart. His current interests extend to encompass semantic search, large scale infrastructure, open source development, federated instant messaging, neurotransmitters, and the future of cyborgs.
[Publish Date: December 08, 2009]
Adapting Your Financial Models for eBooks: O'Reilly Tools of Change for ...
By Stephanie van Duin
Publishers, authors, and retailers all want to know: Do eBooks require a different cost structure? Using examples from actual projects, this session will look at the affect eBooks have on profit and loss development, business models, and costs.
[Publish Date: February 09, 2009]
Will Obama's Technology Push Extend to Financial Regulators? - O'Reilly
By Diane Mueller
Obama's technology-savvy election team worked very effectively to leverage a new world order of YouTube, social networking, and blogging tools to promote his agenda, connect with a nation of voters, and raise campaign funds. But does he really know what...
[Publish Date: January 16, 2009]
Financial Informatics: Startup Low-cost Dataload Challenges and Solutions: ...
By Sean Kelly
In this discussion we'll focus on the architecture, approaches, and challenges of cheaply loading the daily and historical stock market data into MySQL necessary for financial data applications.
[Publish Date: April 14, 2008]
MySQL Cluster with Replication for Financial Transactions: MySQL Conference ...
By Cicero Torteli, Mauricio Hermogenes, Emerson Suzuki
Learn how Paggo utilized a Replicated Cluster to guarantee the necessary High Availability and contingency for financial transactions.
[Publish Date: April 14, 2008]
The Future of Online Financial Discussion: O'Reilly Money:Tech Conference ...
By George Tsiolis
AGORACOM is a second-generation financial community that has successfully eliminated epidemic levels of spam, bashing and profanity that plagued first-generation communities.
[Publish Date: February 06, 2008]
Richard Bookstaber on Risk and Financial Technology: Have We Gone Too Far?: ...
By Richard Bookstaber, Bill Janeway
The author of "A Demon of Our Own Design," argues that technology, rather than being a solution in financial markets, is part of the problem—and the creator of even more and potentially calamitous problems. Innovation is running amok, creating immense problems in calculating and managing risk.
[Publish Date: February 06, 2008]
