Monthly Archives: March 2009

Tracking and charting financial data with PHP

Lately I've wanted to do more with wordpress, and adding dynamic data seemed like a cool project. Although I'm still a few days from posting my 'mortgage rates' page to monsterhash.com, I thought I'd offer a glimpse into the technology behind it.
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How to get a 24% return in this economy

A friend of mine recently noticed that Discover is holding more than $11 billion in cash and other earning assets, while the market cap is well under $3 billion. Although there is some debt on Discover's balance sheet, the asset spread relative to total capitalization is much better than the industry average. So are credit card companies your ticket to the big time?
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What to do when jQuery doesn’t work in WordPress

Troubleshooting javascript sucks...that's why we use jQuery. But what do you do when jQuery doesn't work?
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