Full Text Search with Sphinx We had a look at Sphinx Search. This provides direct APIs to MySQL, and ODBC to other databases. Their most well-known user is Craiglist. Looks very scalable, especially if you can shard the indexes. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:39+00:00 8th January, 2014|Insights| Read More
SELL ALL signal revisited People started with using the 200 day moving average, then later found that the 250-day moving average (the 52-week moving average) was superior... By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:48+00:00 4th December, 2013|Insights| Read More
Common sense investing and being contrarian One of the weird things people say all the time is that to succeed in investment, you need to be a contrarian. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:32:51+00:00 5th November, 2013|Insights| Read More
Detecting a major drop in the Stock Market: the SELL ALL signal! I have noticed that there are times when the KLSE drops so badly that even if you are a value investor, it makes sense to sell everything and wait till the stock market recovers. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:31:59+00:00 17th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
How do credit card companies make money? Ever wondered how credit card companies make money? Checkout the infographics here. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:33:34+00:00 16th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
US Debt Ceiling, QE Tapering and Malaysian Reforms The Republicans today still continue to refuse to honour their debt obligations to the world and there are consequences. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:33:37+00:00 14th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
NUMA and database headaches NUMA stands for non-uniform memory access. It is a memory architecture for multiple CPU systems where some memory is local to specific CPUs, and accessing remote memory (which is local to another CPU) is slower. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:33:46+00:00 14th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
Twitter Bootstrap Twitter Bootstrap is a CSS and Javascript framework for creating light-weight web-sites. By JurisTech| 2020-04-10T16:25:52+00:00 26th September, 2013|Insights| Read More
Malaysia ties with S. Korea in Global Dynamism Index 2013 A pleasant surprise that Malaysia is on par with South Korea on the 2013 Global Dynamism Index. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T15:34:06+00:00 17th September, 2013|Insights| Read More
The Contrary View A contrary view from an interesting read The New Malaysian Economic Dilemma. By JurisTech| 2020-03-27T17:43:43+00:00 12th September, 2013|Insights| Read More