Less is more

We had simplified presentation view of Portfolio Management. We only present information which is really matter to you. Try the latest version of JStock, to see how we make your stock investment fun and easy. http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Need help to assembly back DingBot

Hello.

My name is Cheok and I am from Malaysia.


I owned a DingBot (http://www.theoldrobots.com/dingbot.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Na__KjdHPg) 20+ back years ago. Just that recently, I want to gift it to my small niece. However, I realize its DC motor not working anymore, due to loosen of wire. Hence, I dissemble the entire robot, tighten the wire. The DC motor is working right now. 


Unfortunately, I have no idea how to put it back anymore! The design of its mechanical is much more sophisticated than I expected! (Yah, It is patented! - http://www.theoldrobots.com/images49/Dingbot-1.pdf)

Here is the characteristics of this robot 

1) He will move forward for a while 

2) He will then stop, turn his head left right several times. 

3) While his head is turning, there is sound being emitted. (Interesting, I don't find any sound chip in the robot. I was wondering how does it emit the sound using mechanical way?)

4) Just in case he hits obstacle, he will turn around (I am not quite remember he is turning left or right) 

Here are the components where I cannot figure out how to put them together, so that the moving-stop-head turning-moving mechanism works. 
http://i.imgur.com/nLQW8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/v2XhK.jpg

Here are its other components. I think I shouldn't have problem to put up rest of others. 

http://i.imgur.com/O4Kdh.jpg 
http://i.imgur.com/qWboB.jpg 

If you own this robot, help is very much appreciated, to teach me how to assembly back the robot. I really wish to pass down my childhood favorite toy to my niece. 

Or, possible for you to help me spread this message to appropriate community? As I do not mix around much with robot hobbyist community :)

Thanks a lot!

My contact is yccheok at yahoo dot com

JStock development and bug fixing activities will be temporary halted

Dear all, I would like to let you know that, in coming period, JStock development and bug fixing activities will be halted temporary. This is because I need to concentrate in porting JStock desktop platform to Android's.

We expect JStock for Android will be ready in next 3 months. Once this is done, development and bug fixing activities on desktop platform will be continued.

Thank you for your understanding :)

JStock 1.0.6p has been released

For this round release, it comes with several very interesting features

• Able to perform sorting on buy records and sell records.
• Performing migration from XML to CSV. This enables us to integrate JStock into Android and iPhone/iPad platform. We had gone through a very intensive testing, and expect that the migration process is seamless and flawless. However, should you encounter any problem, please feedback through this forum thread :  https://sourceforge.net/projects/jstock/forums/forum/723854/topic/5321140
• Bug fixed on Mac OSX.

Feel free to grab a free copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

JStock 1.0.6o has been released

Thanks to http://www.klse.info. By working closely with them, we manage to do a quick fix on Malaysia stock history problem. Feel free to grab a copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Malaysia Stock History Server is down temporary

Malaysia Stock History Server is down temporary. Fixing is still in progress. Sorry for any inconvenient caused.

JStock 1.0.6n has been released

We do what we say. Now, you can enjoy MACD scanning through Stock Indicator Editor.

Grab a fresh yet FREE copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Or you would like to learn more regarding this newly added feature through http://jstock.sourceforge.net/help_stock_indicator_editor.html#macd

We hope you love JStock, as much as we love to develop JStock for you :)

MACD feature will be released in few more days

I know quite a number of you are looking forward to have MACD feature in Stock Indicator Editor. :)

No worry. The code is ready

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/jstock/rev/4e5a9a3b6237

http://jstock.hg.sourceforge.net/hgweb/jstock/jstock/rev/d2e31bab341b

I just need some final touch up before I release to you.

JStock loves you all!

Upcoming Development Plan for JStock

Recently, JStock project receives quite a number of constructive suggestions from users. We would like draft out upcoming development plan for JStock.

• Better visibility for chart trend line color. I understand it is quite a bad taste, to choose yellow color for trend line and white color for background. We shall fix the used color for trend line.
• Enhancement over Stock Indicator Editor. The basic functionality of indicator editor is there. However, it is still not easy to build certain common used indicators, using current available tools. This requires enhancements too.
• This is our favorite. We shall start to support Android platform.

Please bear with us as all these works take time. If you would like to support all these works, do consider code contribution, or some monetary donations.

JStock 1.0.6j has been released, with robust cloud storage

JStock 1.0.6j has been released, with robust cloud storage. We make full use of Google Doc, to store your very personal data. Please review our new privacy policy - http://jstock.sourceforge.net/privacy.html

Do not forget to write a positive product review for JStock, to provide encouragement to JStock development team :)

Feel free to grab a fresh baked copy of JStock from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Migrating cloud storage from Google App Engine to Google Doc

After researching for a while, we decide to launch the following development activity, in order to solve the problem http://yccheok.blogspot.com/2011/11/cloud-storage-is-temporary-unavailable.html

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=202896&atid=983421

User may continue to enjoy cloud storage feature, with the additional enhancement.

• No more cloud storage downtime, we do not host the server to store user data. We let Google Doc storage to store user data.
• No more privacy issues, as data will be stored in user's Google Doc storage, not ours.

Development is still in progress. Stay tune. :)

Cloud Storage is temporary unavailable!

UPDATE (15 January 2012) : We are now working out the solution to overcome this problem. For how our solution work, please refer to http://yccheok.blogspot.com/2012/01/migrating-cloud-storage-from-google-app.html

All the while, JStock's Cloud Storage feature is provided as FREE OF CHARGE. (Free as in free beer, and free as in freedom too).

However, due to the new pricing scheme introduced by Google recently, JStock's cloud storage will be temporary unavailable.

Under new pricing scheme, free quota offered by Google, will quickly consumed away by JStock users from all around the world, within few hours!!!

The below screen shoot explains what is going on.

As you can see, under old pricing scheme offered by Google, JStock's Cloud Storage service can run free of charge, within a single day, on Google server.

However, under new pricing scheme, this is how it looks like just after a few hours.

Currently, we are still figuring out, how we can make this cloud storage feature FREE always.

• Switching to another service provider? But which service provider does provide free cloud storage, for an open source project?
• Monetary support from JStock users? http://jstock.sourceforge.net/donation.html
• ???
• ???

Till now, we deeply apologize for the unavailability of cloud storage feature!

For temporary workaround, you may import and your data in Microsoft Excel format or CSV format as shown below. Just go to File -> Save as...

Besides import and export using Microsoft Excel/ CSV format, you may also perform backup, by perform copying operation on .jstock folder as described here : http://jstock.sourceforge.net/help_install_upgrade.html#upgrade-windows

JStock 1.0.6g has been released, with fix on Malaysia history data feed

History data feed sponsored by http://www.klse.info/. With this, we had overcame Yahoo! history data feed problem for Malaysia market.

Thank you for KLSE.INFO sponsorship!

World stock markets are having down trend right now. However, there are no reason to be fear, if we learn from this wise man.

Buy American. I am.

JStock 1.0.6e had been released, by showing LOVE to German and Taiwan Chinese

Thanks to our wonderful friend, Stefan Angrick from Germany. Now, JStock supports German language, and Traditional Chinese language.

Grab a fresh baked copy from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Early Snapshot of jstock-android Development

Here is the early snapshot of Android version JStock :-

Currently, I only plan to port over Portfolio Management feature from Desktop version JStock to Android version JStock.

This is because, I realize there a quite a number of free and good Stock Market related apps out there. For example, Bloomberg for Smartphone (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bloomberg.android&hl=en)

However, I feel that their portfolio management feature is not as comprehensive as JStock's. That's where I try to make jstock-android fill in the gap. :)

Currently, jstock-android is under active development. You are welcomed to participate in it.

https://github.com/yccheok/jstock-android

JStock 1.0.6d - Fixes corrupted feed data

JStock 1.0.6d has been released, to fix corrupted feed data.

Slow Development Progress of JStock - Why?

Recently, you may notice that, JStock is having slow development progress. The latest release of JStock 1.0.6c only comes with 2 bug fixes.

This is because I am trying to port a subset of JStock's features into Android platform. Since I am pretty new to Android, this may take some time :)

JStock loves New Zealand :)

JStock 1.0.6b is now supporting New Zealand stock market. :)

Feel free to grab a fresh baked copy (and free!) from http://jstock.sourceforge.net/download.html

Setup Git to Use WinMerge

It is rather cumbersome to setup WinMerge for Git.

Here are the summarize steps.

1. Add the following line to C:\Users\yccheok\.profile

export TERM=msys

SSH_ENV="$HOME/.ssh/environment"

2. Add the following line to C:\Users\yccheok\.gitconfig

[diff]

tool = diffmerge

[difftool "diffmerge"]

cmd = "C:/Progra~1/WinMerge/WinMergeU.exe" "$LOCAL" "$REMOTE" | cat

To test out, type the following command.

git difftool HEAD A.java

It seems that using Git under Windows is still not a pleasant task yet.