What is Pivotal Stock Ticker?
If like me, you have a meagre amount of money “invested” in stocks and shares, then you’re probably interested in how they’re doing – usually badly of course! I wanted a ticker that would sit in the corner of my screen, that wouldn’t take up too much room, was easy to configure and didn’t ask me every five minutes for either an upgrade or some money. Equally, I wanted something that wasn’t emblazoned with branding and other useless advertising crap. Well, guess what, I couldn’t find one! Most either cost money, lacked an overall summary display or looked like some sort of Star Trek gizmo. So, using some code we have here for showing application status, I wrote my own and this is the results of my efforts. Feel free to criticise or make suggestions for enhancements etc. I do development on this to keep me from going insane in my normal development job so I’m always looking for some sort of distraction…. My goal was to keep it simple and lightweight. Pivotal Stock Ticker uses Yahoo to
