Category Archives: Software

Posts about software, including programming techniques and programming projects that I am working on

Shell scripting tutorials – best references

Posted on January 28, 2011 by andy

Shell scripting is a powerful way of automating tasks. In these tutorials I refer to shell scripting to mean using the Bourne Shell (sh) or Bourne-Again Shell (bash) in a Unix (e.g. Linux) environment. However, I also use these scripts … Continue reading →

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Example – STLplus Library Collection

Posted on December 10, 2010 by andy

STLplus is an open-source collection of C++ classes which I developed to put back in to the Open Source community a small fraction of the vast amount that I have got out of it. It is an extension to the … Continue reading →

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Example – Dragon Financial

Posted on December 10, 2010 by andy

Dragon Financial is a London-based company trading in futures on exchanges around the world. They commissioned a bespoke trading program to act as a gateway between their own in-house trading software and the futures markets. The Dragon Gateway program (shown … Continue reading →

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STLplus 3.5 Released

Posted on October 5, 2009 by andy

This release incorporates a number of changes: additions, reworks and a bug fix. There’s also a new way of working with STLplus: the monolithic build.Added monolithic build optionRe-added simple_ptrReduced the number of disabled warnings for the Borlan… Continue reading →

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STLplus 3.5 Released

Posted on October 5, 2009 by andy

This release incorporates a number of changes: additions, reworks and a bug fix. There’s also a new way of working with STLplus: the monolithic build.Added monolithic build option Continue reading →

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STLplus 3.4 Released

Posted on May 29, 2009 by andy

STLplus is a collection of reusable C++ components for developers already familiar with the STL. It contains template containers to extend the STL, reusable subsystems, data persistence (serialisation) and portability components.This release is a rewor… Continue reading →

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STLplus 3.4 Released

Posted on May 29, 2009 by andy

STLplus is a collection of reusable C++ components for developers already familiar with the STL. It contains template containers to extend the STL, reusable subsystems, data persistence (serialisation) and portability components. Continue reading →

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STLplus 3.3 Released

Posted on December 1, 2008 by andy

This release is to upgrade the status from Beta to Stable. There are no code changes from v3.2 and there have been no bug reports in the 6 months since v3.2 was released, confirming that the code is now stable. Continue reading →

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STLplus has passed 5000 downloads

Posted on June 23, 2008 by andy

Towards the end of March 2008 the STLplus library was downloaded for the 5000th time!This is for the source code projects stlplus and stlplus3 only, excluding the makefiles project. It also excludes users who choose to get the code using CVS. Continue reading →

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Makefiles 1.4 Released

Posted on June 21, 2008 by andy

Added support for include-only projects.Reworked documentation as an HTML manual.This version is the minimum needed for STLplus 3.2. Continue reading →

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