log entries of timotheus

It’s nine in the morning, and I am showered, fed and ready to start my day. I made a lot of really good progress yesterday on nickelpinch. After two weeks of inner turmoil, I finally came up with a database structure for it that is scalable and simple. I’m starting with a new everything, and taking from the old version one function at a time, as is needed. Yesterday I started and finished the new user signup page, and it works great. Today I plan on making the second part of that, where the users can input what their main money account is called, and it will generate the default containers, and the corresponding sql statements to make them a reality. Although first I am going to try some XML generation from sql queries. Ideally I want this program to run off of 0based, which will use the same API that anyone else could.

I only have eight days, but I’d like to get this site fully working by the time I head to Berkeley. I’m hoping I can talk some of my fellow cogs into helping me with the actual design of the site, since I have no aesthetic skills.

In the meantime, I am polling the audience here. I need your help with a name. When you take your money, and you break it down (this much for food, clothes, etc), what do you call those units? A fund, like the food fund? Should I call them slices, like slices of the pie that is your monies? I’m having a tough time determining what to call them. I don’t want to be confusing. Maybe a totally made-up term? Maybe just ‘folders’?