Some questions have come up about using the master branch or a development branch. So I wanted to give my thoughts on the subject. The master branch is always used for current development of the next release. You can branch off to develop a new feature or fix an issue and then merge that back to master. When we do a major release you create a release branch from master….

I have been playing around with writing a Mac OS X app for stock trading. I was granted access to the trade servers API of a major online broker. The stream server API uses a data byte stream to send chunks of data for quotes. I needed this to track the live trades in real time so my app could calculate if it should buy or sell. The problem was…