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’s currency convertor 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.
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’t really clear), cutely called ‘Fame’. They don’t hide their pride either: a passionate (like in ‘geeky’) tale about the implementation can be found right here (Opens in new window).