Why the blog is of interest:

More and more these days, financial traders are software developers, too. As a group, these traders constitute some of the busiest -- and most brilliant -- bloggers around. Karl Schulze, a 22-year-old manager/engineer at a robotics company, has now launched a particularly noteworthy blog encompassing, in his words, "the development of an Automated Trading System," along with robotic technologies, Web site creation, a kite aerial camera system, and a few other types of "ramblings from a young dinosaur."

Despite the eclectic nature of the blog, a lot of the content is specifically related to Microsoft's own C# development language.  Karl, the recent recipient of a master's degree in engineering from Cornell University, gives you the nitty gritty on how to use C# to create a simple trading infrastructure and an intraday historical stock viewer. Beyond strictly professional pursuits, however, he's also exploring how to write an application in C# that's unabashedly socially oriented.

In one of the postings on his "Dinosaur Technology and Trading Blog," Karl tells how he's developing a C# FTP image uploader aimed at letting wedding guests upload their digital images to a central Web site. "In an ideal world, I would set up a Web site which we would hand out to all of our guests. They would go to the site and simply drag and drop their files on to the server much like Kodak Gallery or Shutterfly, shown below," he elaborates.

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