One other thing with the "free support". All organizations have staff turn over. Including governments. You will find that, post project delivery, circumstances will change within the organization and you will be brought back in again to re-train, fine tune, modify based on a changed speci...

I prefer tales about international fallen royalty etc.More imagination involved rather than just blasting big lists of acronyms and bullshyt.

<r>Dweeb,re: Prototype that didn't make it into development. Below the belt blow but just soooooooo true!!!!!! I can't argue with it. <E>:-)</E> re: Standards. Nothing irritates me more than being sent someone else spreadsheet that "stopped working suddenly" and you open it up to find an absolute do...

<r>Hmmmmm, this kind of speaks to a greater issue imo. The use of Excel and therefore the use of VBA. Excel is a great Swiss Army knife. It gets you into trouble but also solves a lot of problems. Right tool for the right job.For example, I still have not yet seen as good a reporting tool as Excel. ...

<t>A very big deal here is Liqiudity. I have seen people get caught with moderate positions on a cross border hedge and get spanked. The market moves against them and the slightest liquidation of a position moves the market further against them. PJM and the bigger markets are quite liquid. Canada is...

kenwessen,Are you planning an Android version?

<t>I worked for an energy trading software company. Their flagship product (that did Front, Middle and Back Office) supported every database known to man. Well, every database that MS Access ODBC supported. Because their original VB6/ Access platform was "super sized" to be VB6 => Access ODBC => Nam...

<t>andrepoorman,Suffering from Wind Generation in the West? ;-)This is a problem that is unique to the power markets. We are seeing them in MISO as well. I understand your problem but am surprised as the Spread Approximation is for forward deals. Whilst we have seen negative prices for sporadic hour...

electricity.

<t>You have to understand what products are liquid. I use that term liberally for the power markets!For example, July and August 2011, On Peak are trading as individual months now. But July and Aug 2012, 13 etc are trading as a summer package. You can buy them separately but will pay a premium. So, ...

I use Ubuntu for home and just upgraded to Natty this morning. As always, am extremely pleased with it!

Slso, have a look at any indexes on the table as some data will be written twice (in the data file and index file). I would recommend taking indexes off the table, pounding the data in and then putting indexes on the table afterwards.

I agree with Hansi. C# is great.And SAS is no better than MatLab or R.

Why not use Mersenne Twister? It beats the DieHard tests and is quick.