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Bloomberg Open Symbology - BSYM (Bloomberg open sources its Security Identifier Universe)
Posted on 25. Feb, 2010 by khader.
A while ago, Bloomberg announced that it is making its proprietary security codes public (http://bsym.bloomberg.com/sym/). I received couple of emails asking what that means. Many news items used the term ‘Open Source’, which was confusing to some. First, let me explain what they are making it open source.
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Fixed Income Trading System Architecture Workshop on Sep 26
Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by khader.
I am planning to start another series of sessions on Trading Platform Architecture. I will start the first session on Sep 26th covering the basics of FI products, players, needs of Broker/dealer and System requirements. For more details and presentation downloads visit Fixed Income Trading System Architecture
I will also be postin some articles on desing [...]
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FIX Protocol FAQs are posted
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by khader.
As requested, I have compiled good number of frequently asked questions on FIX protocol. I tried my best to answer them precisely. I have added them under Sections tab on right menu or can click here.
Feel free to write to me if you have any specific questions on this topic.
Cheers!
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HtmlGenericControl ID Property is not specified - ASP.Net (Visual Studio)
Posted on 18. May, 2009 by khader.
You would see this quite often in Visual Studio (mainly 2008) while working with ASP.Net and User Controls. This is been very tricky. It is not actually a problem, but Visiual Studio could not render this control inside another page. It was kind of a pain not being able to see User control inside main [...]
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HttpException (0×80004005): The IListSource does not contain any data sources - Anatomy
Posted on 05. May, 2009 by khader.
This is one of the common errors I saw when I was testing our new asp.net application recently. I asked my team, the answer was simple patch. But I wasn’t happy. I didn’t find any good explanation from anybody on internet either. I did little research. Here’s my explanation.
First, couple of points to note:
This [...]
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HttpException (0×80004005): Maximum request length exceeded.
Posted on 01. May, 2009 by khader.
These days I have been developing couple of prototypes using ASP.Net. I love to use ASP.Net for quick prototypes. I am throwing some of the key issues I am facing. We connected our app to real database that has millions of rows. First thing we came across was request length exception.
HttpException (0×80004005): Maximum request length [...]
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Bytecode Instrumentation
Posted on 27. Apr, 2009 by khader.
It sounds pretty technical word. How can you observe the perforamnce or the behavior of your class files (byte code)? Are there any hooks that JVM gives us to do this? The answer is ‘Bytecode instrmentation’ (BCI). Using BCI you can examine and modify the bytecode objects before they are executed. This is a very [...]
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Securities Trade Life Cycle
Posted on 11. Apr, 2009 by khader.
It is important to know the big picture of securities trade life cycle. I have been conducting this little workshop on this topic. This workshop covers the following topics. You can also download the presentation Securities Trade Processing(PPT/PDF).
CONTENTS:
Introduction
Brokerage Firm/Securities Trading Organization
Trade Life Cycle
Order Origination / Front Office
Order Validation / Middle Office
Settlement / Back Office
Custodians, Commercial Banks
References
-Khader
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Tooltip for GridView Column Headers (ASP.Net)
Posted on 30. Mar, 2009 by khader.
I just wanted to add auto tooltips for my GridView headers. There are couple of ways but I don’t want to use javascript and wanted to use simple ‘title’ attribute. It took couple of hours to get the working code supporting sortable columns. I thought it will be very useful for others. Here’s the code and logic [...]
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Grid Computing Vs Cloud Computing
Posted on 19. Mar, 2009 by khader.
Recently we started hearing a lot about these terms. They are bit confusing and not many are clear about the distinction. I tried to google it to see if there is any simple and clear explanation somewhere. But I wasn’t that lucky. So let me explain this in a simplest possible way.
Grid Computing term is [...]
