Ashley Broadley
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I don't know about you, but I really like to keep track of where and how much money I spend. My iPhone makes this really easy as you can download many different and useful applications from the App Store.
Unfortunately I need to use two applications to suit my needs. I use one for budgeting and one for keeping an eye on how much money is in my bank account.
I use Spend (£0.59) for budgetting. This comes in very handy if you only want to spend certain amounts of money on certain things each week, two weeks or month. I have a few budgets like food and fuel. I like the UI on this one. It's very easy to add budgets and transactions. The only thing lacking is the ability to add a monthly income.
I use Balance (£free) to keep track of my bank balance. This is also very handy to have. This one has the ability to add a monthly income and recurring transactions, such as car insurance or phone bills. Again, this is easy to navigate and add transactions.
What I really need is a mixture of the two. So being the resourceful individual (ha!) I am, I decided to create my own application. Unfortunately I'm no C (or variant) developer, so I'm kinda stuck to creating stuff for the web. Which really isn't that bad, considering Apple use the Web-Kit framework for their Safari browser (which is used and adapted for the iPhone). This means that I can create a website that uses transitions, data loading techniques (thanks to AJAX!) and many other similar desktop like features.
Apple have a lot of really well documented guides and example codes that a free to use for Web App Developement. They make a whole bunch of very helpful comparisons on how to do things. Like the use of XML, compared to HTML and JSON when returning data from a database to a JavaScript function to display on the page. They showed that JSON uses the least bandwidth to transfer and therefore takes less time to load. I guess I've got some learning to do.
All that's left to say is, Watch This Space! You never know, I might submit it to Apple and make it commercial (free of course, since I'm rather partial to the Open Source Community). I need to make it before any of that happens though. So come back in about a year or so... or if your a regular reader of all six of my articles, come back sooner!
Posted on Saturday 27th December, 2008 21:15
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