In my previous post, I designed a simple program to gather stock prices daily, then write that data to a text file. Now the next step was to do something with that data. Ultimately I would like to include a graphic of a line chart using SVG::Plot. That is…
Today I completed a simple program to download stock pricing information. This Perl6 program takes a list of stock symbols and utilizes the Yahoo.com Finance WebService API and retrieves the current day's closing stock price. This data is then saved into a text file in my clDB…
Things are moving along in the world of Perl6 Modules. An Perl6 Module is a way of sharing your code with others. As of this writing there are over 460! One nice thing that has be changed was the inclusion of travis-ci With travis, you can build test for your…
It was reported on Thursday November 5th 2015 that security researchers Lookout has found three new malware programs that infect Android phones. The three malware strains have been found in about 20k apps! And that is not the scary part, which is this malware CAN NOT be removed from the…
In the world of computers and connected devices, there has to be a method for them to communicate with the outside world. This communication could be in the form of looking up a web site, or connecting to a Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server. Whatever the reason, computers need to…
Stock trading has halted today at 11:32 EST, due to technical issues with their information systems. UPDATE: currently at 13:20 EST trading has resumed a reduced rate, approximately 20% full capacity. The NYSE asserts "issue we are experiencing is an internal technical issue and is not the…
The good people at Fedora will release Fedora 23 Beta (If everything is on schedule) tomorrow. (9/22/2015) If you did not know, Fedora is a community distribution of Linux supported and funded by Red Hat Linux. Linux is a computer operating system like Mac OS X or Windows.…
I am planning on redoing my computer cluster. Currently I have a cluster of five Beagle Bones Blacks. Now I want to make a cluster of 20 or more Raspberry Pi 2's. The BBB cluster was fun to make but I rushed the job. It is fun to…