{"id":66,"date":"2008-02-12T01:44:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T01:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techa.nanosleep.org\/wp\/index.php\/2008\/02\/12\/novell-hack-week-day-1\/"},"modified":"2008-02-12T01:44:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T01:44:44","slug":"novell-hack-week-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hpjansson.org\/blag\/2008\/02\/12\/novell-hack-week-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Novell hack week, day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Novell's hack week has started. For those of you who don't know what a hack week is, it's a work week where we, the programmers at Novell, get to goof around with more or less whatever project we find interesting.<\/p>\n<p>I've chosen to start a new project called \"Sterling\", the goal of which is to keep better track of my moneys. I've used <a href=\"\/\/www.gnucash.org\/\">GnuCash<\/a> to do this for some time, but it's clunky and overkill for my uses. I want to streamline the process of entering transactions and otherwise keep the complexity down, especially for people like me who know (and care) little about accounting. Indeed, I want the UI to resemble <a href=\"\/\/www.gnome.org\/projects\/tomboy\/\">Tomboy<\/a>'s in many ways:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Always running, with a panel applet interface.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop-global \"new transaction\" hotkey.<\/li>\n<li>Per-user database, no open\/save dialogs.<\/li>\n<li>Implicit save on edit.<\/li>\n<li>Type-ahead completion of transaction description.<\/li>\n<li>Suggesting details of transaction based on similar past transactions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tag_%28metadata%29\">Tagging<\/a> of transactions for easy cross-sectioning.<\/li>\n<li>Simple search-as-you-type view of transaction history.<\/li>\n<li>Multiple currencies recognized by their <a href=\"\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ISO_4217\">ISO 4217<\/a> codes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Star Trek future features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Currency conversion (use Google?).<\/li>\n<li>Multiple registers (similar to books in Tomboy).<\/li>\n<li>Export to XML, merge from XML.<\/li>\n<li>Remote synchronization (by Zeroconf discovery or specific URI) allowing for shared databases.<\/li>\n<li>Desktop search integration.<\/li>\n<li>Drop-dead attractive graphs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In order to make things as difficult for myself as possible, I've decided to learn something new and do it in C#\/<a href=\"\/\/www.mono-project.com\/Main_Page\">Mono<\/a>. 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