Sunday, December 3, 2017

Interview question asked on Financial Information Exchange (FIX) Protocol

Here are some of the common questions asked on any  FIX (financial information exchange)  protocol or financial interview , these questions are just some on top of my mind please add any other questions you have faced in your financial interview position , I would add them in list.

·         What is an Exchange?
·         What is the difference between a Stock and a Bond?
·         What is the difference between Sell Orders and Short Sell Orders?
·         What is naked short and what is covered short?
What is the difference between an ECN and an exchange?
·         What is FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXCHANGE (FIX) Protocol?
·         What is limit order?
·         What is a market order?
·         What is a stop or stop loss order?

Sunday, October 29, 2017

The Most Simple trick to Loss Weight - Buy A Digital Weight Machine and Check Your Weight Daily

You must be wondering why I am sharing a weight loss or physical fitness tip in my Java programming blog? Well, after reading Soft Skills: The software developer's life manual by John Sonmez, a software developer, and life coach, I found that fitness is very important for programmers and it's about time we should take it seriously.  In general, programmers and IT professionals are not the most physically active persons and hence the easy target for the life-threating disease like heart-attack and diabetic. I started my weight loss journey last year, achieved something but lost it again due to busy work schedule. In this article, I am going to share some of my experience, starting with the most simple trick to lose weight, which worked for me and helped me to lose 8Kg in 3 months.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

10 Websites to Practice Coding Challenges and Improve Your Programming Skill - Best of Lot

Do you love programming challenges? If Yes, then you will be happy to see so many free resources available to improve your programming skills. There are so many websites, which has interesting programming questions, puzzles, riddles, problem set, and challenges. Some of them even provide a worldwide ranking, so that you can judge yourself among other programmers from all over the world. In this article, we will see my collection of 10 websites, which provides programming and coding challenges. I have tried to include a mixture of sites that have both easy, moderate, tough, and extremely difficult programming challenges.

Java swing tutorial: Learning JList with code example

In this java swing JList tutorial, we will learn important properties and function of JList while working on a task with examples. In my opinion best way to learn swing is to actually doing the task and so I designed this tutorial around the task. We will start with a simple example and proceed with more  complex one step by step adding new functionality and in the course, we will learn JList both concept and API. In this first example, we need to implement a list which shows names of companies in sorted order. 
Before start coding let's see some fundamentals of JList:

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

How to use Assertion in Java Code - When, Where

Where and when to use Assertion in Java is probably the most important thing you want to know about Assertions. In last couple of articles we have seen What is Assertion in Java and How to enable or disable Assertion in Java while in this article we will discuss most important part “Where to use Java Assertions” as I have always said Java Assertion should be taken as replacement of JUnit testing or Exception in Java Instead Assertion compliments both Unit testing and Exception and if used property provides you another testing tool which may test application with more real data than JUnit tests.

Monday, January 16, 2017

How to enable or disable Assertion in Java

The good thing about Assertion in Java is that you can enable or disable Assertion at runtime. The designer of java are really very thoughtful, they have thought of many situations while designing java and its API. one of the gems is the ability to enable or disable assertion in runtime without any change on code. In last article we see how Assertion works in Java and now we will see some step by step guide on how to disable or enable Assertion in Java By default assertions in Java are disabled at runtime and JVM provides following options to deal with assertion in Java :