A few weeks ago, I mentioned my new way of tracking my budget and also figured that there’s one gaping hole: importing bank statements. This is part 1, where I create a simple parser for bank statements provided by my bank in CSV format.
More …It’s something I’d been wondering for a while: how does GWT’s JavaScript code stack up to code created and optimized by hand? I hadn’t really seen any exact data, until now.
More …Today, I have a number of news items that have caught my attention over the last month: YouTube finally evolves out of the computer room, NASA uses yet more tricks to get us excited about their missions, making money with Flash and JavaScript everywhere (this last one is for techies). It’s just a small sampling of what’s happening.
More …Sometimes you guys surprise me. Again I hear discussion on turning off comments on blogs, but I love your comments. I want to receive more! Especially if they lead me to sites like VRtifacts. A site on everything that Virtual Reality was. All the promises it once held, but that never came to fruition. It’s the story of yet one more bubble, explained by some one with a lot of artifacts.
More …Two weeks ago I discovered that Wesabe will shut down at the end of July. Wesabe was the tool I used to track and budget my expenses. Without as much as an e-mail, the Wesabe owners decided to give us a one month notice. Some promises for more export tools were made, but have not yet materialized. Considering the value of the data that they kept, I must say I am thoroughly disappointed. Obviously, if you run out of money, there’s not much you can do, but still, a business plan might have been a wise investment.
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