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MSDN : Blast from the past...

on July 15, 2020

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G-Technology, Apple Mac, Bootcamp, Windows and Thunderbolt 3 - a word of caution

on April 13, 2020

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Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse switch-off using Windows inside Bootcamp

on May 30, 2019

Apple https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Microsoft

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Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

on July 01, 2018

Doing IT right Microsoft PowerShell

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MSFT & WASM

on April 10, 2018

C# C++ Doing IT right HTML5 Microsoft WASM

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MacOS High Sierra 10.13.1, Bootcamp, APFS and Windows 10 Build 1709 problem

on November 28, 2017

Apple Doing IT right Microsoft

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VirtualBox: After upgrading guest Windows OS, reinstall GuestAdditions

on September 09, 2017

geek Microsoft Oracle VirtualBox virtualisation

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Visual Studio for Mac

on May 27, 2017

Agile Apple C# geek Microsoft

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SQL Server on Linux

on November 24, 2016

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Excel REST API vs Ethercalc

on August 08, 2016

Excel Excel Industrialisation Microsoft

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TypeScript versus JavaScript for node.js development?

on July 05, 2016

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Windows 10: Wireless hotspot problems

on June 27, 2016

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Starting MongoDB with Powershell and a UTC timestamp dated log file

on May 01, 2016

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Microsoft R Open and Microsoft R Server

on January 30, 2016

https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Matlab Microsoft Python quant R

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R in Visual Studio

on November 20, 2015

C# https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Microsoft quant R

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Microsoft Excel Wishlist: Please integrate with R

on August 01, 2015

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Excel 2016: I (still) want my VBA 15.10.0 and 15.11.2

on July 15, 2015

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

on April 25, 2015

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

on April 21, 2015

C# DDE Excel https://github.com/AlignmentSystems https://twitter.com/AlignmentSys https://www.linkedin.com/company/alignment-systems Market data Microsoft middleware RTD Excel Solace Systems

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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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Revolution #9

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

How many Fixed Income trading venues are there? [182] Last update 3rd January 2025] A simple question came up recently in a conversation – how many new Fixed Income trading venues are there? I could not think of anywhere that maintained a comprehensive list, so I decided to try and put something together. A global list of Fixed Income Trading Venues with a change log

Windows equivalent of UNIX "touch" command

A fairly standard operation in *nix world is the command touch. Touch changes file dates, so it's an easy way to kick off backup jobs or similar that use file modification times. Windows doesn't have an exact analogue, but a functionally similar feature exists within PowerShell.

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

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.

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.

Fintech Interview: Kevin Mak, Co-Founder, Ironfly Technologies

Sixth interview with interesting folks within Fintech, this one with Kevin Mak of Ironfly Technologies .

Matching Engines: An overview

Matching engines are at the core of electronic trading. In many cases the actual software is old and written using techniques, patterns and languages from the past. We've considered some enhancements to matching engines before " Matching engine for corporate bonds? ".

Kill Switch

The kill switch is a requirement for a modern automated trading environment. The term is pretty generic and can include capabilities such as:

Fintech Interview: Thomas Kim - CEO, Enfusion

A slight change of pace, a series of interviews with interesting people within the Fintech space. First up, Thomas Kim of Enfusion...

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