Introducing StockQuoter IM

January 14, 2008 · No Comments

I have a relative who is very into his stocks. He's constantly looking for the latest information and pricing on his stocks. So, as they say, necessity was the mother of invention. I took some time this last weekend to give the XMPP IM gateway in CF8 a roll. I merged my existing work I had done with getting stock quotes via a web service and the CF gateway technology. I came up with StockQuoter. StockQuoter is a GoogleTalk buddy (cfstockticker@gmail.com) which you can add to your buddy list and get instant stock quotes (delayed up to 20 minutes). Simply IM either a single symbol, or a comma delimited list of symbols and StockQuoter will return you the current prices and the change since the market opened. Again, all you need to do to use StockQuoter is add it to your buddy list. The buddy to add is: cfstockticker@gmail.com Happy quoting!