GnuCash

Last month I took an interest in keeping my finances tracked and orderly and returned to GnuCash. I stopped using it when I got a Mac because I assumed that the Mac would have something that would have something with iLife that would do finances and I wanted to do everything the “Mac Way” *tm*.

The closest thing I could find was the free installation of Quicken that came with my Mac and it was all talk and no work. It started to seamlessly import all my transactions and let me create a budget and everything but there were no useful hotkeys (meaning lots of mouse work) and in the end it was slow and didn’t present anything in a way I could use.

I got GnuCash built on my Mac and  got it up to date. I didn’t find the budgeting features did things in a way that I could use (probably due to my complete lack of budgeting experience though) and so I’ve started to look at enhancing the Scheduled Transaction (SX) engine.

Before I could do this I had to be able to be able to build GnuCash quickly, and my Mini just wasn’t cutting it. This meant back to my Debian system.

Before I could do that I had to get osx2x back up and running

Then finally I got some work done:

http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-January/019742.html 

 http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019788.html

http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019791.html 

http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2007-February/019792.html 

This stuff just added an enabled/disabled flag to the SX’s. I hope to move onto some more “love bugs” and then try to get some sort of “SX Projection Report” that will apply SX’s against any set of accounts out to an arbitrary date.