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-==Overview==
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-[[category:software/incomplete]][[FinanceFerret]] is the working name for an (eventually) [[open source]] personal finance manager application currently being developed by [[User:Woozle|Woozle]].
-===Goals===
-* To avoid [[/flaws in other software|shortcomings in existing money manager software]]
-* To minimize the "setup curve", i.e. the amount of preparatory work needed before any useful amounts of data can be entered
-* To provide all basic functionality needed for the following:
-** Tracking and balancing one's bank accounts, credit cards, and other basic types of money accounts
-** 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)
-* To make data entry as painless as possible:
-** Easy identification of redundantly-entered transactions -- so you can Just Start Typing instead of worrying about where you left off last time
-** 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
-===Naming===
-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]].
-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).
-When I checked again on 2009-06-06, financeferret.com had become available, so I registered it.
-===Status===
-The software currently exists as a [[Microsoft Access 97]] program (written in VBA); I have migrated the tables to [[MySQL]], and the basic functions are now working and usable. The rest of the application will be migrated to non-proprietary platforms as time permits, and I will be posting the source code as soon as I have any worth publishing.
-The next step may be to convert it to web-based application, as HTML could possibly overcome many of the interface design issues I'm encountering.
-Early documentation for that version is [[htwiki:HyperMoney|on HypertWiki]].
-===Concepts===
-* [[/mirror transaction]]
 ==Code==
 * [[/tables]]
 * [[/queries]]

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