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by bestdev
June 15th, 2009, 4:23 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Open source software to become big @ Wall Street ?
Replies: 17
Views: 42141

Open source software to become big @ Wall Street ?

<r>I found this article on the advantages open source software can bring to the hedge fund industryhttp://<URL url="http://www.hedgefundsoftware.net/will-open-source-software-come-to-hedge-fund-industry/Do"><LINK_TEXT text="www.hedgefundsoftware.net/will-open-sou ... ndustry/Do">www.hedgefundsoftwar...
by bestdev
July 16th, 2007, 10:15 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: What do you think about undergraduate program at USF
Replies: 0
Views: 68302

What do you think about undergraduate program at USF

<t>Hi,I am seriously considering on getting my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from University of San Francisco. I have couple more semesters to go.What do you think about undergraduate in Math program at USF? Do you think it is worth the money it cost ($16,000/semester)?Would it help me in my j...
by bestdev
June 24th, 2007, 1:02 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Frustrated VBA Error
Replies: 15
Views: 74682

Frustrated VBA Error

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: jeffreyluIt is strange that this error message does not happen all the time and not always for the same routine in the application, like a random event happening frequently.looks like a data error to me.. check if data has any weird characters.. or do some defensive cod...
by bestdev
June 16th, 2007, 5:08 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Excel dll problem
Replies: 6
Views: 73287

Excel dll problem

It is running fine on Windows XP but not Windows Server 2003. And you are doing data access in your project. Am I right?? If so most likely that you have a reference to a wrong DAO (data access) object library ( DAO 3.51 instead of DAO 3.6 or vice versa)..
by bestdev
June 12th, 2007, 8:05 pm
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Public variable in function statement (VBA)
Replies: 8
Views: 77165

Public variable in function statement (VBA)

<t>I think you are missing basic principles of encapsulation here.As a general rule you should not rely on the public variables, but rather set up properties. This will give you more control over how properties are assigned values and how they return values. Property enables you to validate the data...
by bestdev
June 6th, 2007, 3:46 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Quant Developer Skills
Replies: 24
Views: 73851

Quant Developer Skills

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: twofishQuoteOriginally posted by: bestdevI've noticed that a number of people have stated that in most cases this difference or that difference isn't important. However, the situations where it *does* make a difference are usually the important ones because those are th...
by bestdev
June 6th, 2007, 1:58 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Quant Developer Skills
Replies: 24
Views: 73851

Quant Developer Skills

<t>I want to say some words in C# defenseDefinitely correctly written unmanaged code is much faster then managed, but certainly no single human with less than a decade of experience can even begin to hope to create applications in one language where speed difference in executed code are the cause of...
by bestdev
May 31st, 2007, 8:35 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Shims
Replies: 20
Views: 77181

Shims

The shim is a Microsoft Visual C++ Active Template Library (ATL) COM DLL. It exposes a COM-creatable class that acts as a proxy to the real managed extension class.you can (and should) use a COM shim to write managed add-ins, smart tags, or real-time data components for Microsoft Office
by bestdev
May 31st, 2007, 8:19 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: research blog software
Replies: 4
Views: 72499

research blog software

Wordpress is the best blog software out there - it is FREEvBbulletin - the best forum - one license - $160 by the way www.QuantitativeFinanceForum.com is using vBulletin
by bestdev
May 31st, 2007, 8:13 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Visual Basic or VB.net
Replies: 25
Views: 74002

Visual Basic or VB.net

it depends what do you need it forin general I would definitely suggest learning .NET framework
by bestdev
May 31st, 2007, 8:01 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Which C++ software to buy?
Replies: 5
Views: 71454

Which C++ software to buy?

<t>why do you want to buy one.. you can download really good C++ IDEs absolutely free I would recommend DEV-C++ from bloodshed As far as similarity of C# and C++ they are quite different.. C# is basically simplified C++, very similar to Java. It is much easier to use since you do not have to deal wi...
by bestdev
May 28th, 2007, 4:41 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: VBA & C++ for beginners!!!
Replies: 67
Views: 212654

VBA & C++ for beginners!!!

DCFC can you please send me these notes. I would really appreciate that.Thanks
by bestdev
April 27th, 2007, 11:19 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Learning Java
Replies: 7
Views: 73386

Learning Java

<t>As a programmer can tell you that learning any programming language is good and is not a waste of time, since there are a lot of similarities in the languages, by knowing that this or that exists in one programming language you can assume that the same feature exist in the others of course syntax...
by bestdev
April 19th, 2007, 2:28 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: What should I major in for my BS
Replies: 15
Views: 76075

What should I major in for my BS

Can someone suggest a good undegrad school that offers BS in Financial Math or Quantative Math? Does undegrad Quantative Finance is way better the regular Applied Math??thanks in advance for your responses
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