\W/O\B/B\L/E\B/O\X/5\ » pFinance http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog a multiple-identity makeover Mon, 09 Aug 2010 07:59:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Bugs Everywhere! http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/2009/04/01/bugs-everywhere/ http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/2009/04/01/bugs-everywhere/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:41:47 +0000 penny dreadnaught http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/?p=296 Regarding the little PHP personal finance app that I made: please don’t download and use it yet*! I hadn’t tested it, and only tried using it (for real) today. It’s rather broken… I thought the lack of MySQL errors meant that everything was good-enough to go. :’(

Is there a systematic way to learn debugging?

Also, I think I will have to learn Javascript. I can’t avoid it anymore! I have been running away from the DOM & cross-browser craziness for the past 8 years but I need the pfinance pages to stop bouncing around from the POST/GET requests. :’( :’( :’(

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]]> http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/2009/04/01/bugs-everywhere/feed/ 0 The Best Personal Finance Application I Have Ever Made in MY LIFE!!! http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/2009/03/24/the-best-personal-finance-application-i-have-ever-made-in-my-life/ http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/2009/03/24/the-best-personal-finance-application-i-have-ever-made-in-my-life/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:08:29 +0000 penny dreadnaught http://www.wobblebox5.com/blog/?p=232 I’ve been working on this for the past… um… 4 months? Which really is more like 2 months since terrible things happened during that time (like Christmas). What are you talking about?!, you ask?

Well I’m glad you asked & I hope you will be glad that you asked too! It’s a little PHP application that will keep track of your expenses and your budget. And it’s called pFinance! (The ‘p’ is silent!)

But there are millions of apps that do that already! you exclaim! That is true. There are many fancier, prettier things out there. But those all seem really complicated and I was learning PHP, so I made a new app! It’s free! It runs on MAMP! Which means it should also run on LAMP + WAMP, right? It has no interest in downloading all your bank & credit card statements! You have to enter everything yourself! Like a Real Adult! You should try it!

I can see that you are difficult to convince. You can play around with the app here: pFinance @ moonchacha. And you can download the files [soon! right after we work out some kinks – ed., 04/01] and run them on your own computer. The pFinance_SETUP.php file will get you started (that is, if you already have M/L/WAMP set up). I promise there’s nothing malicious in there (so far as I can tell!).

pFinance will only get better! There are already plans for v2.0 & v3.0!

v2.0 will include:

  1. dHTML so that editing transactions & stuff won’t make the page bounce around so much!
  2. “GROUP BY” SQL queries & fewer PHP loops!
  3. income/expense groups! (maybe) (for now a negative transaction = expense, positive = income)
  4. Something that will make the parent categories make more sense!
  5. Monthly spending comparison tables!
  6. Better date range selection!

v3.0 will include:

  1. Fancy Flash charts!
  2. Maybe users!

I hope you like it! Also, if you need a simple PHP doodad & aren’t worried about security, I will gladly make you one in exchange for some $$$. :)

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