Trading Tools – Stock Price Decline Checker

Categories: Investing Python Stock Trading Trading
As a trader and investor, I’m constantly trying to make profitable stock trades and invest more wisely. I’m primarily looking for ways to increase returns, decrease risk, and to make smarter decisions. One of the ways I make better trades and invest more wisely is through the use of various trading and investing tools. There are many great tools and web sites out there to help trading and investing research, such as R, Yahoo!

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Pelican, a static site generator written in Python

Categories: Python Web Development
What is Pelican? Pelican is a static site generator, written in Python. Pelican is open source and you can find Pelican on GitHub. Pelican also supports themes and plugins. You can write your own themes and plugins, or you can download many different themes and plugins already made and ready to go. Pelican is similar to Jekyll in that both are static site generators and easy to use. The big difference is Pelican is written in Python while Jekyll is written in Ruby.

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Jekyll with Clean URLs Hosted at Rackspace Cloud Files

Categories: Projects Python Technology Web Development
Jekyll with Human Friendly URLs I’ve been using Jekyll to generate static web sites and then hosting them on the Rackspace Cloud Files CDN which uses Akamai’s content delivery network (CDN). With Rackspace Cloud Files I have a CDN-enabled container and I have enabled my container to serve static web site files. This means I can use Rackspace Cloud Files with Akamai CDN to serve all my static web sites and I do not need to run or manage my own servers for web hosting.

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What’s In Your Drinking Water?

Categories: Health Nicholas Kuechler
I was curious to see what chemicals, pollutants, toxins, and other materials were in my tap water. After a little research I came across the Environmental Working Group reports on contaminants in water for cities and states around the US. The EWG contains detailed reports and analysis of chemicals and other pollutants in common tap water for your city and state. You can locate your state on the page Water Quality by State.

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