Pushing On, Into Samarkand
The banner picture shows one of our camel trains carrying goods into Samarqand
as it is now named, in Uzbekistan. The camel train roughly follows the
historical route of the Great Silk Road, except near the end. These days we
avoid the troubles in the Peshawar/ Swat valley region by coming through
Kyrgystan and making camp outside of Tashkent, before the final stage South to
Samarqand.
Book Review Forum
The book-review forum was developed for the Mensa Book-Lovers' Special Interest
Group. Members of the group internationally will be using the application to
exchange information and opinions about books.
This makes the forum the first application that has a defined user community It
will be interesting to see what new challenges that throws up.
StockPicker
The first release of the Stockpicker application collects the daily closing
prices of around 4,000 shares listed on the ASX and NZX, and charts them.
The next release will do basic technical analysis on the data and recommend buys
and sells against portfolios. We will monitor its operation for a while with
imaginary money before comitting real money.
Q110 now out
On time, under budget as usual. This is a solid release with the usual number
of development hours logged against it.
The two new features are the forum for the Mensa Book Lovers' SIG and the first
cut of the StockPicker, detailed elesewhere on this page.
Q110 is the fifth quarterly release from Hexagon Global. They have all come out
on time and under budget. The products are starting to look quite nice but
there is still a lot more to be done.
There is no secret or magic bullet to the consistent production of high-quality
results. It is just all hard work and there is no way around it. Hexagon is
proud to espouse these simple and 'old-fashioned' values. We think that our
customers will be very pleased that we do.