A journey from Mount Stupid
Just when I started blogging again, I found myself sidetracked…
Humble pie and GnuCash
Time for me to eat some humble pie and admit defeat. About a year ago I started a project to write a simple home finance system for myself…
Finance Project 7: Starting the UI
When I’m building web apps I like to get the look and feel in place while I’m developing…
The Django class war
When I wrote the first view for my application it was written as a function. If you follow the Django tutorial, it recommends switching to generic views using classes…
A digression into Git
At the moment I’m the sole developer working on my finance project and I can’t see that changing. It’s very much a learning exercise…
Finance Project 6: Managing the data
I have a basic data model, so now I need a way to enter data…
Finance Project 5: The data model
Now that I’ve got Django up and running I can create my models…
Finance Project 4: Finally getting started
Now that I’ve worked out how I’m going to structure my data I need to work out how to store it…
Finance Project 3: The Schema
Now that I’ve decided how to structure the data in my finance application I can move on to the next step – designing the schema…