Irrational Exuberance

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Do you have software that you wrote that you use on a daily basis? A few programs, or none at all? Why or why not?

You are responding to this comment written by diN0bot on July 15th 2008, 21:42.

my first django project was a bills system for my coop. it allows members to add expenditures, eg groceries, and modify their occupancy (we have two kinds: physical, which takes part in the food bills; and spiritual, which takes part in the utility bills).

mostly it provides transparency. i used jquery to dynamically create line graphs of different kinds of bills over time. there are summary views as well as all details for the house and individuals. it's easier for people to check what they paid and owe. in addition to occupancy complexity is rent redistribution, since we don't own the house and have a confusing setup with our landlady about each side of the house and how much each room is 'worth', and so on.

it's also easier for me to do the bills. the system before was not transaction based, but rather tallied each month on a spread sheet copied from last month. i have more confidence in this system...and more comfort. no doubt like you do with LifeFlow.

it takes a lot of courage to release code into the open source wild, or even into the wild in an attempt to foster users. if anyone has anecdotes about personal software development that resulted in user(s) or collaborator(s) let me know. i realize this entry is in the archive by now (:

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