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SQL Server 2014 - Exporting/restoring database diagrams

on April 29, 2015

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Microsoft JDBC 4.0 and 4.1 driver - missing help files...

on April 25, 2015

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Bloomberg outage: an alternative view

on April 23, 2015

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C# and Auto-Incrementing Build Numbers in VS 2013

on April 22, 2015

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Solace Systems & FIX & Excel RTD in C#...Part Two: Why Excel RTD?

on April 21, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Fifteen "Story so far"

on April 20, 2015

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Apple vs. Microsoft OR... Installing OSX Yosemite 10.10.3 on VirtualBox for development purposes...

on April 19, 2015

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Solace Systems & FIX & Excel RTD in C#...Part One: Introduction

on April 19, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Fourteen "Enumerating Excel.Model"

on April 18, 2015

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Solace Systems & Node.js Market Data Terminal

on April 18, 2015

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Fixed Income: New market for Corporate Bonds

on April 17, 2015

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Excel COMAddin in C# - debugging...

on April 11, 2015

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Buy-side analytics: Unified Analytics Platform

on April 10, 2015

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Don't call a folder C# if you have a compiled HTML help (chm) file in there

on April 10, 2015

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Excel<>FIX engine interface using JSON or BSON

on April 10, 2015

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Sell-side FIX reference implementation (not low latency)

on April 07, 2015

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Excel RTD Server VBA code wrapper: gotcha!

on April 07, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Thirteen "Enumerating Connections"

on April 06, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Twelve "Enumerating XL4 Macro Sheets"

on April 05, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Eleven "Enumerating OLEObjects"

on April 05, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Ten "Enumerating COMAddins"

on April 04, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Eight "Enumerating RTD Servers"

on April 03, 2015

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Excel VBA - industrialisation...Part Nine "Enumerating DDE Servers"

on April 03, 2015

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Fixed Income Trading: New venues ( How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? )

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Excel RTD Server implementation in C#......Part 1

I have not written much C# recently but I've had two conversations recently on the topic of RTD Server implementations so I thought I'd try and refresh my memory.

The market data product that the global financial services industry really wants....

On a number of projects I have had to work with numerous datasets.

What's the difference between an EMS and an OMS?

Suggestion: it’s directional, asset-class and/or execution style related… If you got here from google - try also OMS and EMS

Banks and Car companies

Readers of this blog will probably be aware of the author's love of an analogy, technology, finance and cars.

What is a FIX engine? [Updated]

In a number of consulting roles over the years I've been asked this question. It's something that I still get asked so I'll describe my view. First, some history on the firms in the FIX engine market sector, then some narrative.

Middleware, an appreciation….

Throughout my working life the role of middleware has played a crucial part. For many people it’s something of a dark art that is not well understood. This post will set out a description of some use cases, some solutions offered by middleware, a taxonomy of different types of middleware and a forward looking analysis.

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