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 | Please Don't Do This |
· Krehbiel Tech · Wednesday, Apr 4, 2007, 6:52 PM · 322 words · 
Over the last couple weeks I've been enjoying a lovely little application that repeatedly polls for xml data from a web service. The main loop of this application looks something like this.
| UvMoney: Home Banking For Mad Scientists |
· Krehbiel Tech · Sunday, Apr 8, 2007, 10:04 PM · 601 words · 4 comments ·
My latest mad-scientist software project idea involves home banking.
| A Brief Look At SourceGrid 4.x |
· Krehbiel Tech · Saturday, Apr 28, 2007, 1:44 PM · 698 words ·
To implement an interface that somewhat resembles a check register for UvMoney, I'm going to need a list or grid control. I wrote a semi-usable grid control for .NET 1.1 a few years back, but I wanted to test drive a more mature grid for this project.
| Hacknot Is Cool |
· Krehbiel Tech · Wednesday, Apr 4, 2007, 6:08 PM · 179 words · 3 comments ·
I've been trying to fill my news reader with good blogs on software development, both to expand my knowledge and to peek at the state-of-the-art in programmer blogging. Most of the blogs I see are not interesting, not informative, and/or not focused. But today I came across Hacknot, which hits it out of the park, as far as I'm concerned. (It's actually more of an e-periodical than a blog... it's not updated often.) I really like the essay Developers are from Mars, Programmers are from Venus. (I'm a developer, obviously. :)
said,
Wow, thanks for the Hacknot site. I've already enjoyed the DL weenie article :) Uhh, isnt uvBlog written in one of those dynamic languages? :)
said,
Err, yeah, although I don't see how PHP can be considered all that dynamic.
said,
I'm just giving you a hard time. You know better than I that "DL" has its place and time.
cynthia said,
By writing this and making it public, aren't you giving away the secrets that are your ticket to not having to work a 9-5, while raking in gazillions in the process?
Tom said,
Nobody reads my blog so it's probably safe. :) Besides, Microsoft and Intuit already have the home banking market sewn up anyway.
Sean/Red said,
Check this out, you may find it useful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFX
Tom said,
Cool, thanks Red! I knew MS Money and Quicken had some way to get data from banks but I didn't realize it was an open standard. My data scrapers go through an interface so it should be pretty easy to plug in new acquisition methods in the future.