Full Text Search with SphinxWe 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+08:008th January, 2014|Insights| Read More
SELL ALL signal revisitedPeople 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+08:004th December, 2013|Insights| Read More
Common sense investing and being contrarianOne 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+08:005th 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+08:0017th 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+08:0016th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
US Debt Ceiling, QE Tapering and Malaysian ReformsThe 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+08:0014th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
NUMA and database headachesNUMA 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+08:0014th October, 2013|Insights| Read More
Twitter BootstrapTwitter Bootstrap is a CSS and Javascript framework for creating light-weight web-sites.By JurisTech|2020-04-10T16:25:52+08:0026th September, 2013|Insights| Read More
Malaysia ties with S. Korea in Global Dynamism Index 2013A pleasant surprise that Malaysia is on par with South Korea on the 2013 Global Dynamism Index.By JurisTech|2020-03-27T15:34:06+08:0017th September, 2013|Insights| Read More
The Contrary ViewA contrary view from an interesting read The New Malaysian Economic Dilemma.By JurisTech|2020-03-27T17:43:43+08:0012th September, 2013|Insights| Read More