{"id":455,"date":"2004-01-06T20:12:02","date_gmt":"2004-01-06T23:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=455"},"modified":"2006-01-01T13:04:37","modified_gmt":"2006-01-01T17:04:37","slug":"fame-and-the-bank-of-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=455","title":{"rendered":"Fame and the Bank of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>W<\/span>hile doing<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:right;margin:5px;\" alt=\"famed.jpg\" src=\".\/wp-content\/misc\/famed.jpg\" width=\"98\" height=\"69\" border=\"0\" \/>some research for my employer, I had to look up some things on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofcanada.ca\">Bank Of Canada<\/a> site.  Particularly I was thinking of making an interface between the the bank&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofcanada.ca\/en\/exchange-look.htm\">currency convertor<\/a> and (our inhouse made) ordering and invoicing software. Which is possible, but looking at the used technology, I keep wondering if the bank should focus on other kind of formats or techniques. It would be a dream if they had an XML-RPC or SOAP interface to their precious data.\n<\/p>\n<p>That aside: the IT guys over at the Bank are not as stuffy as one would expect them to be.  They developed their own scripting language (I think, that part isn&#8217;t really clear), cutely called &#8216;Fame&#8217;. They don&#8217;t hide their pride either: a passionate (like in &#8216;geeky&#8217;) tale about the implementation can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bankofcanada.ca\/en\/famescript.htm\" target=\"_new\">right here<\/a> (Opens in new window).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While doing some research for my employer, I had to look up some things on the Bank Of Canada site. Particularly I was thinking of making an interface between the the bank&#8217;s currency convertor and (our inhouse made) ordering and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=455\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}