A new year, a new project

Happy new year! I figured this year I'd resolve to finish a programming project that's been kicking around the back of my head for a while now and has had an abortive start or two.

For the past year, I've been using GnuCash as my way of keeping track of my spending. While it's a very well written program, it has one minor irritant. I split my purchases into categories to better track where my money goes, but that makes reconciliation tricky at the end of the month. While I could preface the description for each transaction with the store, I'd rather be able to group transactions and be able to treat the group as a whole as a single entity during reconciliation.

So, with no pomp and somewhat random circumstance, I will be using this blog as a way to guilt me into working on a personal finance app I'm going to call Rupiz (Roo-peez).