Currencies list with corresponding state flags added

May 11th, 2008
A new page has been added to the project - list of currencies, containing state flags, ISO-4217 codes and official currency names. The flag images and names of the currencies were taken from Wikipedia. Currently they're saved statically, but in future the names, flag images and brief information about currencies ...
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DSV-formats implemented

April 11th, 2008
Three delimiter separated formats: CSV, SSV and TSV implemented. These are most popular machine-readable formats. CSV - comma separated values, without caption. SSV - space-separated values. The values are delimited by single space TSV - tab-separated values. All the formats have following structure of line: DATE|UNIT|CCY|RATE|BASECCY Where DATE - date in ISO format yyyy-mm-dd UNIT - currency unit (1, ...
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Database support added

April 9th, 2008
Greetings! Database support added to store rates. Once currency rates for specified date parsed, they're stored to database, and aren't retrieved anymore from original source. Database support speeds up web-service work! I use SQLAlchemy as an object-oriented database backend, that is a very convenient tool.
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Welcome to NationalRates.Net

March 27th, 2008
Good news! Domain name for the project was chosen and registered successfully. Meet NationalRates.Net!!! © David Avsajanishvili
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Rates representation format

March 25th, 2008
The site, as noted before, collects currency rates, declared by central banks of different countries. At this moment no rates storing is actually performed - there is only implemented on-the-fly banks' webpages parsing. Rate request is performed by opening URL of following structure: http://avsd.webfactional.com/rates/GEL/text/yyyy-mm-dd Where: GEL - base currency abbreviation ...
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Currency Rates introduction

March 24th, 2008
Hello all! This project is intended to collect currency rates and represent them in user-and machine-readable format. Project is written in Django. It will connect to different locations, where currency rates could be collected, and store the rates to database. Name of the project is not chosen yet. © David Avsajanishvili, 2008.
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