tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59513752009-12-15T22:45:20.680-05:00Zeuhl meets Wall Streetmarchttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09487180059998380922noreply@blogger.comBlogger500125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5951375.post-58840498920406761982009-12-09T21:10:00.003-05:002009-12-09T21:11:44.999-05:00

I have noticed that Headhunters who operate in a particular space in Capital Markets or have a job opening in a certain area will create LinkedIn groups for the sole purpose of identifying candidates. I never join groups that have been created by a headhunter unless they are personally recommended to me.For me, LinkedIn is becoming a bit like the Wild West, and its usefulness will be diluted by

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Since starting my new job, I have not heard very much about the world of Complex Event Processing. Has the buzz disappeared?©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved. All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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I was speaking to a very old friend and colleague from 1984, when I worked at Computer Associates. His start-up company, Scientia, was bought out by Sorcim, the makers of SuperCalc. In turn, Sorcim was gobbled up by CA.Out of curiosity, I Googled "Scientia", and I found out that Google has archived past issues of InfoWorld magazine.I came across this little ditty .....©2009 Marc Adler - All

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Smart Guys on Wall Street from the New York TimesRico Mariani looks back on his personal history of Visual Studio while working at Microsoft.Matt Davey is having some fun with StreamInsight (aka Orinoco). When I was at the Microsoft Design Review last January, I was jumping up and down about some of the interesting design decisions that the Orinoco team make concerning their adapter model.

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This evening, I received the following message from a recruiter who must have me in his database:Hi Marc,C# Tibco contract, 40-60/hr, 12 months in NYC. Would you be interested in this?Thanks and have a nice evening,Mr. XXX YYYYManaging Partner(Contracting Company)Even though I am not in the market, I paused to consider this solicitation, and I found this rate to be somewhat insulting and way

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For those wondering what I am doing on my gardening leave, I am putting some effort into my other blog. Just returned from 5 days in Europe. Now I have to concentrate on reworking the lighting in my house.Thanks to all of the people who have written to me since I announced my resignation.Over the next few days, I actually might write a little blog post here on some of the lessons that were

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OK, I've become hopelessly addicted to Facebook ... I admit it.Last night, with the rain pouring outside and the US Open tennis matches postponed, I decided to write something that I've wanted for a long time. An application that sits in the Windows System Tray and notifies me when I get a new Facebook notification. By "notification", I am referring to the red balloon with the number '4':By

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(As I was in the middle of answering a question from someone during my hand-off, my Blackberry reset itself. When it came back on, I found my account terminated from the Citigroup Blackberry server. Oh well ... let them figure out the answers for themselves!)Some people have asked me what I think of the job market right now in Capital Markets IT.From my vantage point, the job market for good IT

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I have been overwhelmed by the amount of good wishes and calls that I have received since I announced my resignation.I am in a period right now that is affectionately known as "Gardening Leave". In most companies, you give a two-week notice when you resign, and it is up to the management as to whether or not you serve out that full two weeks. In most companies on Wall Street (and especially in

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You may have noticed that this blog has been very quiet lately. The reason is because I have resigned from Citigroup (this is most likely the first and only time that I will mention my employer by name on this blog). I will be joining one of the premier names in Capital Markets, helping them bootstrap new businesses, build technology infrastructure, and building great teams.I am grateful for the

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©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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I have been doing a bit of playing around with the new Reactive Framework (Rx) lately. And, I like what I see so far.The first thing that came to mind was how the Orinoco team was going to resolve the fact that another LINQ-based streaming API was coming out of a "competitive" group in Microsoft.A little birdie has told me that recently, Microsoft merged several of the competitive division, and

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For those very few people who come here to read about Magma, the French Rock band ...I have just started a new blog just for Magma and Zeuhl music. Please come and visit, and remember to add the new blog to your blog reading software.©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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The new 5.0 version of Drools seems to have CEP capabilities.Has anyone here tried it out yet? Do you think that it can handle about 10,000 events per second? Has anyone pumped market data through it?I am going to start reading up on Drools Fusion and see how it contrasts with the upcoming Microsoft Orinoco. Fusion is here right now. Orinoco .... well .... we'll see.©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights

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I am sitting in my hotel lobby in Santiago de Compostelo, Spain, and trying to put in a half hour of laptop time while my wife and daughter are still sleeping. I am reading all of the hub-bub surrounding HFT and algo trading, all brought on by the arrest of the Goldman Sachs employee. This morning, Paul Wilmott has an editorial in the New York Times.What is going through my mind right now is the

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New York Times article and opinions on High Frequency Trading here. It also has a good explanation of what is called "gaming" in algo trading.(Sorry for the lack of posts ... I've been traveling in Europe for the past week and will return to New York in the first week in August).©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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Nice article here.Very interesting quote on Page 2, second paragraph.©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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(I am sitting here with a HP dv9700t laptop with two broken hinges, trying to cross my knees in such a way that the screen will be propped up in a way that I can see it. I am going to Spain for the last two weeks in July, so right before I go, I will send the laptop off for repair. I estimate the repair cost to be about $300. I cannot believe that HP makes a complete line of laptops whose hinges

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Not much to write about SIFMA this year. I was warned by a friend that it was a ghost-town on the first day. I went to SIFMA on the second day, which is usually the most attended day, and unfortunately, my friend was correct.In 2008, SIFMA has 350 vendors, but this year, they had 201 vendors, which is a decrease of about 42%. The side corridors used to be jammed with small vendors, but they were

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Matt seems to have read my mind. I have just started a dive into Cloud Computing, and today, my questions to various CEP vendors were "Can I use you in the Cloud? Have you deployed to Amazon EC2 yet?"There are various reasons why, at this time, I feel that we should start looking at the Cloud. I will be posting more on this in the future. But, for apps that are not latency sensitive, and if we

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Congratulations to Karen Shanahan for beating the odds.©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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Video on using Oslo and DSL's for testing trading systems.(Thanks to Terry for the link)I would love to explore using a DSL to have our traders register lightweight queries with our CEP system.Notable about this use case is their use of Microsoft's CCR.©2009 Marc Adler - All Rights Reserved.All opinions here are personal, and have no relation to my employer.

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I went through the painful 1 hour and 20 minute bad-joke-athon that was the Google Wave video on YouTube. Nevertheless, I see some immediate things that I would love to deliver to our traders.The obvious thing would be the ability to drag and drop some of the interesting graphs that we produce from our real-time WPF-based dashboard onto a Wave, have the traders discuss the graphs in real-time,

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I just created two new User Groups on LinkedIn.1) Microsoft Complex Event ProcessingThis is for discussions surrounding the new Microsoft CEP (aka Orinoco) product.2) AleriThis is for the newly combined CorAleri product. We can discuss the legacy Coral8 and Aleri products, and discuss the parts of the CorAleri roadmap that are not under NDA.If these groups interest you, please feel free to join.©

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First Derivatives held it's first New York KDB User's Group meeting at LiquidNet in new York city on May 28th, 2009. About 100 people showed up, and it seemed that there was no more than one degree of separation between everyone in the room. Jacob Loveless did a great presentation on the things that he is doing at BGC/Cantor, and Dan Nugent showed a glimpse of a KDB unit testing framework.©2009

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