I love it! Just whipped up a couple of toy web services in 15 mins using Spark. They will be part of a technical interview coding task.

True, Spark may not be better/more concise than JAX-RS, but fun to try anyway.

I like it! Easily build a pretty page, drop in a 'lil angularJs app & go. Too bad I'm not a mac guy...

This is very upsetting. I live in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood & pass by what I suspect is a similar temp agency, while on my way to the gym in the morning. Now I feel even worse for the people in line at its door...

I'm a back end java guy who's getting more into JS. Bought. Thx, Fogus.

Jeff, thanks! I was in analysis paralysis over how to handle some new functionality & this pushed me over the edge toward trying angularJS. So far, so good...

BTW, I bought the two cheapest ebooks in your list. Hope you got a piece! The 'Recipes' one has been the most handy so far.

Matt...glad you found it helpful. I haven't purchased the Recipes book yet, but I might after seeing your feedback.

I've purchased the AngularJS Oreilly book (good, not great...it just didn't feel like a well-organized book to me) and the Packt book (Web Application Development with AngularJS)..the Packt book is excellent. At least for the first 5 chapters I've read. Oh, and I have no "referral" params for any of those books.

I'm personally really excited about getting to work with Angular. It has been a lot of fun so far, and its amazing how much you can do with a small amount of code.

I've re-entered the world of web apps recently & think this is excellent!

Yes, 43, going on 5. I laughed.

Subjectively, I thought this was well worth reading. Better than previous years' IMHO.

5by is very nice -- great work

I trade real money on a similar system, but using genetic algorithms. I worked on it for maybe 4 years before putting money on it in 2013. So far, I'm up 1.05% on $284K traded.

I wrote my own fairly pessimistic backtester. Also, I currently use the generated models for buy signals, but I tend to sell earlier than they dictate, because I find it hard to turn down even a modest profit.

Out of interest, is that better or worse than you were expecting? You don't say when in 2013 you started, but since the start of the year the S&P is up around 6%, the NASDAQ composite is up 4.5%, and the FTSE All Share is up a similar amount.

Assuming you did put the money in in January you would have probably made more profit by simply investing in an index tracker.

True, I'm losing to the market, since January. But 'the market' is unpredictable, unrealized gains on paper. Unless you sell your index tracking positions, you will, in the next couple years, see some nice unrealized losses on paper.

My gains are realized. And fairly predictable.

Also, I only have about $55k in capital. But my rapid buy/sell cycle (not HFT) allows me to keep 'reusing' it.

So you're up 5% on capital employed. Well, if you can sustain that, you'll be doing pretty well!