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.

We have a great idea for a program. I mean, that’s how it starts, right? Some guys get together (usually drunkenly) and holler about how if they had enough money to quit their jobs and write this super program that they’d take over the world and put Gates in his place, or somesuch drunken nonsense.

It’s funny how luck comes at you, sometimes, as that’s what happened.

Many years ago I was using a program that I absolutely hated and vowed to rewrite it when I had the chance. Years went by, it went by without updates and there was nothing better. I forgot about it.

Life went on and I got a different job and made a life for myself and so forth. You know the drill. Then, one day, a friend came to me and said: “If you could do anything you wanted, what would it be?” So I relayed my tale of that crappy program I wanted done right. Well, it turns out he knew a man who has a lot of investments, and now we’re one of those.

Hi there.

We arrived in San Francisco for WWDC on Sunday morning. I never really appreciated the video iPod until trapped on an Airbus from Austin to San Francisco for three hours.

Good Eats

In the general vicinity of Union Square and the Moscone Center, there’s a ton of good food from names you know and love. The food court at The Metreon has some great fare. However, I’m love hole-in-the-wall joints, and there’s plenty of that around. My favorite joint so far, Lori’s Diner, has two locations within walking distance of our hotel.