We’re hiring again and expect to bring on a couple of folks this time. We’re also opening up to remote workers for this round, so if you’re heathen enough that you refuse to love Austin for the joy that it is, we’ll still love you, just in that red-headed stepchild kind of way.

What would you do? We’re working on a follow-up to Switchblade with some really nice features, Photonic’s 1.1 release is being prepared, and Prosperity is right around the corner. If you know Cocoa, then you can help.

I awoke groggily and with blurred vision, grabbing my MacBook Pro and sitting down to wake up to the ding of new mail this morning. What did I find? Google Alerts telling me that what I feared was going to happen had happened. Intuit is taking Quicken online as a service rather than as a program.

Why was this something I feared? Because I’ve used Quicken on the Mac since version 7 back in the late 90s. I, personally, have years of data inside it. As a customer, I’m seeing the writing on the wall for the product.

As I related once before on my personal site, this has been rumored for quite a while so the actual service is not a surprise. What it means for the users of desktop Quicken is the surprise.

It’s about time. After working on the project for a while myself, we hired on two additional coders a few months ago to kick-start development of Prosperity and have now reached a point (at version 0.5) where we want to start getting input from people on the project.

Quicken for Mac has been a real problem of mine for years and it’s always been a dream to get rid of it on the Mac. It does little useful for anyone and it’s a codebase that hasn’t been truly updated in a decade. It has some useful features but, in general, it’s old and done.