Brad Lucas

Programming, Clojure and other interests

Beacon Hill Open Source Applications Released

October 14, 2009

Open Source Released by Beacon Hill:

Yahoo Quote Downloader - For downloading historical price information from Yahoo Quick Note - Emailer for personal messages Downloader - A system for providing downloadable links with notification Signup - Web signup application S3cp - Amazon S3 command line cp program Sitemapper - sitemap.xml generator

http://digg.com/d317Cg3

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Website Grader Results

October 14, 2009

A bit jump to 92

http://websitegrader.com/site/www.beaconhill.com

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Press Release For Yahoo Quote Downloader

October 14, 2009

Here's a bit of news.

http://www.prlog.org/10375922-beacon-hill-inc-release-open-source-yahoo-quote-downloader.html

Trying a new service from prlog.org to get some traffic. Simple to use. We'll see how things go.

New York

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Open Source Yahoo Quote Downloader

October 10, 2009

A posting about yqd the Yahoo Quote Downloader.

http://www.entirelyopensource.com/Software/Open-Source-Yahoo-Quote-Downloader

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Postgres Date Arithmetic

September 24, 2009

Postgres Date Arithmetic

Postgres Timestamp Addition

I created a table where I want to have two columns with dates. The first will be the date the record in the table is created. The other should be a week later. The table is for a contact management system where I'm going to keep information about when I emailed a contact and when I should follow up a week later.

In Postgres this turned out to be very easy. Look at the following table definition. You can easily create a date 7 days from now by adding "interval '7 days'" to now();

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