Building a Better Finance App
A subtle nod to capitalism. The next series of posts is likely going to bend toward more technical material, but I'll do my best to keep the non-techie crowd engaged. In addition to the technical details, I want to walk through some of the software design concepts and steps I used to focus on my business decisions for developing this app (if business decision is indeed the right phrase). If, for some reason, you decide that you want to use my solution as your financial app, I'll post a link to install the solution and the formulas needed to generate the appropriate Google Sheet, so you can hum along in no time. Years ago, before the advent and subsequent demise of Mint, I started writing an app called Slowpoke (the opposite of Quicken, get it? Sigh. ) I didn't want to pay a fee to manage my money, and I thought this would be a good side project to learn, at the time, Ruby on Rails (although I think my first iteration may have even been in PHP). ...
