Today, I created a small flash movie showing typical usage of Mjrz.net Personal finance application.
I created this using the wonderful Wink tutorial and presentation creator software.
You can find the presentation here: Mjrz.net demo
So check out the presentation. I am always open for comments,suggestions,critiques.
The wink website is:
http://www.debugmode.com/wink
Today I released version 1.0.36 of Mjrz.net Personal Finance Manager.
Major new feature this release is support for multiple profiles. Users can setup multiple profiles, identified by profile name or user name and manage a separate set of accounts for that profile.
I'll try to describe a high level overview of the application. Mjrz.net PFM uses HSQL database to store its data. HSQL DB is a relational database written in Java. It is small, fast and mostly standards complaint. I've setup HSQL db to run is a file mode.
The data files that HSQL db uses and stores are located in users home directory. For example, under Linux/unix it may be "/home/[username]/fmdata/profiles". There will a profile directory created for each user under this directory where the database files are stored.
As far as security is concerned, Mjrz.net PFM stores most financial information using a password based encrypted format. The password is setup when the user first creates a profile. Note, this does not prevent a malicious hacker from deleting or corrupting the users data files. Protecting access to the files is user's responsibility. Protecting the data within the file is application's responsibility.
For the more technically interested, some Mjrz.net PFM facts:
1. Uses Hibernate for ORM
2. Uses OFX for online banking
3. Written in java.
4. Needs Java Runtime Environment 1.6 or higher
I know, I know.
I got tired of thinking up a good name so made up a random sequence of letters. If anyone can think of a cool/funky name for this project and does not mind letting go of the name, please contact me.
Last couple of days, I was looking for a very simple, one user blog that I could install in this web site to discuss Mjrz.net Personal finance manager and some interesting Java topics. Most of the open-source blog software that I could find had too many features for my simple needs.
My blog is not going to have fancy layout, templates, photo-albums etc, and most importantly, I could be the only user posting weblog entries.
So today, I decided to put together a few php scripts to create a very simple blog system. In its current avatar, the only features it has is listing blog entries and comments for each entry. Along the way, I got to learn fun stuff about apache's mod_rewrite and some of newer php features.
Anyway, if any one else is looking for such a similar/simple blog software, contact me, I will make a downloadable version of the php scripts.