[Kde-finance-apps] help on a new application

Cristian Oneţ onet.cristian at gmail.com
Thu May 20 19:10:13 CEST 2010


Hi Santosh,

Alvaro has just about told everything I can think of at this stage (thanks 
Alvaro). I also would like to Wlecome you to the KDE Finance group.

I think you should take a look at Alkimia's description since that is where 
your work is going to be added.

Regards,
Cristian

În data de Joi 20 Mai 2010 18:45:47 Alvaro Soliverez a scris:
> Hello Santosh,
> welcome to KDE Finance.
> Cristian is an experienced developer and I'm sure he'll be able to
> help you. And the rest of us are available to chime in if needed.
> I can help with the more administrative-related tasks, too.
> 
> Your effort will be part of a new framework called Alkimia.
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia
> It fits one of the desired use cases.
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/KdeFinance/Alkimia/Usecases#Central_Stock_
> Price_Information
> 
> Skrooge and KMyMoney both have ways to retrieve stock information. I'm
> not familiar with Skrooge, but I know KMyMoney uses both custom
> parsing of the web pages and a perl script called finance::quote (it
> is a separate package and we have a plugin that calls the script to
> retrieve the info).
> Guillaume or Sebastian can provide more info about Skrooge.
> 
> The stock information should be stored in a repository of Alkimia,
> where it can be queried by any application via DBus. Mukesh, another
> SoK student is working on a DBus service, so it'll be probably helpful
> if you get in touch with him later about it.
> 
> The sms ticker should connect to it. I'm not familiar with any sms
> server, but I've seen some around. You can search in kde-apps for
> similar applications that can be used as examples.
> 
> We would like to know more about you. Do you have experience with C++,
> Qt, KDE, databases, etc.?
> 
> Welcome to the group!
> 
> Regards,
> Alvaro
> KMyMoney development team
> 
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 11:31 AM, santosh kumar <santosh.k66 at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> > 
> > I am Santosh Kumar , an engineeering student from new delhi , India.
> > 
> >  I want to create a sms alert plugin for kde finance apps.
> > using real time nyse and other local stock tickers ,we can create a
> > real time alerts system which can be customized according to the
> > user's need.
> > 
> > We can even think about porting it to other kde apps,  once developed.
> > 
> > But I am a newbie developer for the open source and will need much
> > help from my mentor kirsten onet and the community at large.
> > 
> > saying Hi to kisten and to community.
> > 
> > I will post a broader framework if people are intersted.
> > 
> > Does someone know about some stock tickers that are part of python or
> > other libraries?
> > 
> > and what about the sms server? Do I need to build it myself or is it
> > there in the opensource.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > --
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Regards,

Cristian Oneţ
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