'DSE Stock Tracker' in First BdOSN Code Sprint

I am back from the first BdOSN code sprint - the first of it's kind in our country - Bangladesh. It was held at SUST (Shah Jalal University of Science & Technology), Sylhet - one of the most beautiful places in Bangladesh. I did my graduation from this university :)

There I lead a project named 'DSE Stock Tracker'. It shows real-time (4 minutes delay) stock prices from Dhaka Stock Exchange to your mobile. The mobile client was developed in Python (PyS60).

The whole system has three parts:
  • A spider that harvests data from dse website and stores in mysql database
  • An API for mobile application/client
  • A mobile client


All the parts are developed using Python.

I shall write my experience, challenges faced and how I solved them in next several posts. Stay tuned!

Comments

Unknown said…
hi, Good job done. We can be proud for you.
July 25, 2009 at 1:04 AM
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