[Kde-finance-apps] Work on Alkimia during SoK

[Brian Cappello]

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM, santosh kumar <santosh.k66 at gmail.com>wrote:

> thanks Alavaro and Cristian
> mid august is a great time frame.
> suits me .
> one question though can I do it with one source and one notification
> initially.
> We can build on it later on .
> I found by blogs and all that yahoo cvs is the thing that comes
> closest to real time .
>

I was able to do some research too on this, and it appears real-time is
dependent upon whatever exchange the asked-for symbol is on. For example,
you're lucky, it appears the National Stock Exchange of India always
provides real-time quotes (as long as you're signed into Yahoo). For more or
less the rest of the world quotes are delayed by anywhere from 10-30
minutes, or real-time must be paid for (and again the user must be logged
in). See here for details:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/finance/quotes/fitadelay.html


>
> it's reliable .
>
> free
>
> and there are no srtrings attached.
>
> since dbus application is so critical to the format of our work we may
> like dbus people to keep updating on it's evolution and their
> expectations.
> thanks bryan for your help with that yahoo script.
>

No problem :) It seems you have *many* more years of programming experience
than I, so I shall be the one calling you SIR ;)

>
>
> On 5/21/10, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 4:08 PM, Alvaro Soliverez <asoliverez at gmail.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>> this is just so that we can organize ourselves. Here's my proposal for
> >>> the work on Alkimia that came up during this week.
> >>>
> >>> Mukesh and Santosh are students of Season of KDE, so their scope of
> >>> work should be well defined. Brian, I'll check later with you if you
> >>> are interested in getting into SoK, which I think fits your case.
> >>>
> >>> Mukesh will focus on getting a DBus service up and running that will
> >>> allow to input transactions and store them, and then retrieve them by
> >>> a number of parameters.
> >>> Mentors for Mukesh are Klaas and myself.
> >>>
> >>> Santosh's work should be mainly focused on retrieving quotes from a
> >>> storage and then throwing notifications based on a global and
> >>> per-stock configuration. The storage could be a DBus service, a plasma
> >>> datasource, or a file. The notifications could be a systray
> >>> notification (KNotify?), an email or a sms message. The configuration
> >>> should allow to configure notifications when a stock is above/below a
> >>> certain value or percentage of in-day value change, etc. My main point
> >>> is that the storage should be flexible, eg. the application shouldn't
> >>> care much where it gets its data from, and notifications too, eg. we
> >>> don't know what options other people might come up with, so allowing
> >>> for at least 2 or 3 options will help iron out the design.
> >>> Cristian is Santosh's mentor.
> >>>
> >>> Brian, if you are interested, you could work on a DBus service that
> >>> retrieves stock values via web or an import file and stores them for
> >>> later use (that same storage as Mukesh has to use). That DBus service
> >>> should allow for queries (so that Santosh can use it for his
> >>> application). Also, a GUI could be available to show the stored
> >>> stocks, with charts, sheets, et al.
> >>> Cristian, would you agree to co-mentor Brian with me? We have both
> >>> done some work on these areas, so we can help out.
> >>
> >> Sure, if Brian is willing to participate.
> >>
> >>> Questions, suggestions, and even nitpicking is welcome. :)
> >>
> >> It seems to me that you have isolated each task pretty well so work
> >> can be done independently on each module this is a good plan. I've got
> >> a few questions though. Is the development going to take place in
> >> playground/office? Do the students have SVN access? What is the
> >> time-frame of 'Season of KDE'?
> >>
> >
> > They will have SVN access. When there's code to commit, we'll ask for
> > that. Usually, it only takes a couple of days. And we can commit for
> > them if need be.
> > And yes, it will go into playground/office/alkimia.
> > The timeframe starts about now and ends mid-August.
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