Recent content by daniel buskirk

  1. Native Image Generation

    The native code file can be found, though not easily. I think, however, it will not be quite what you want. In C:\Windows there is a folder called assembly. If you open it up in the Windows Explorer, however, you will not find a list of files. You will be entering a shell application designed...
  2. Best C++ for experienced VBA/PHP developer

    Since you already have some experience with the Windows API, you might enjoy Windows via C/C++ by Jeffrey Richter and Christophe Nasarre. Most definitely not a beginner's book, it immediately delves into the nitty-gritty of Windows development such as threads and processes. All the...
  3. Free software for plotting 3D graph

    3D Plots I personally prefer SciLab to Octave for free MatLab-like software. Though SciLab is very similar to MatLab, it does not try to be a MatLab clone, so some of the instructions are different. Gnuplot produces some absolutely phenomenal plots, but I did not find learning it to be easy...
  4. SQL

    Usefulness of SQL in Analysis While it is possible to do simple statistical analyses using the SQL language, this is not its main strong-point. For quants there are a couple of uses for which some knowledge of SQL can be quite helpful. 1) Making a temporary copy of data. Repeated queries on...
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