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==About==
 
==About==
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[[FinanceFerret]] is the working name for an (eventually) [[open source]] personal finance manager application currently being developed by [[User:Woozle|Woozle]].
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[[FinanceFerret]] is the working name for an [[open source]] personal finance manager application currently under development. The official documentation is now on [[wooz:FinanceFerret|wooz.dev]].
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===Goals===
 
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* To avoid [[/flaws in other software|shortcomings in existing money manager software]]
 
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* To minimize the "setup curve", i.e. the amount of preparatory work needed before any useful amounts of data can be entered
 
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* To provide all basic functionality needed for the following:
 
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** Tracking and balancing one's bank accounts, credit cards, and other basic types of money accounts
 
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** Tracking debts and loans involving one or more other parties of varying levels of disorganization (they might or might not send you regular statements or even reliable itemizations)
 
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* To make data entry as painless as possible:
 
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** Easy identification of redundantly-entered transactions -- so you can Just Start Typing instead of worrying about where you left off last time
 
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** Deferred data massaging -- so you can Just Start Typing, and worry about assigning proper accounts and categories to things later; the program should keep track of incomplete data massaging so you can take care of it when you have time
 
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===Naming===
 
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Googling for "[[google:financeferret|financeferret]]" did not turn up any apparent trademarks. The [[domain name]] "financeferret.com" was registered in 2006, but as of 2008-08-17 the associated web site still showed it as "coming soon" -- possibly a [[domain squatter]].
 
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From this, I determined that the name is more or less available for this use. "financeferret.net" and "financeferret.org" were available as of 2008-08-17, but it didn't seem worth the trouble and expense to register them (enough just-for-the-name domains sitting around sucking $12/year out of my bank account already).
 
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When I checked again on 2009-06-06, financeferret.com had become available, so I registered it... but later let the registration expire. Amazingly, it has not yet been snarfed up by a [[domain squatter]] (as of 2011-09-27).
 
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===Status===
 
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The software was working reasonably well (albeit with many rough edges) as a [[Microsoft Access 97]] program (written in VBA). I have ported most of it to [[PHP]]/[[MySQL]] as a [[MediaWiki]] plugin, and the basic functions are now working and were usable at one point, though I think changes in the underlying libraries have caused some problems which now need to be fixed.
 
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Problems with the data design, plus some additional opportunities to make this system useful as a library rather than just a standalone module, are leading me to abandon trying to fix the current bugs and start work on [[/version 2]].
 
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Early documentation for the MS Access version is [[htwiki:HyperMoney|on HypertWiki]].
 
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===Concepts===
 
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* [[/mirror transaction]]
 
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==Code==
 
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* [[/tables]]
 
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* [[/queries]]
 

Latest revision as of 15:21, 2 March 2020

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FinanceFerret is the working name for an open source personal finance manager application currently under development. The official documentation is now on wooz.dev.

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