Bully Bully
I know I haven’t posted in awhile. But it’s because I’m obsessed with a new project. I get ideas for new projects all the time. I normally entertain these ideas, and then let them go. I’m very picky about which ones I decide to make physical. Because once I take one on, I’m consumed with it until it’s done.
This new project is called ‘Bully Bully’. It’s a remake of my old stock market program ‘The Bob Fund’. Because it’s a big project, I needed to have a lot of good reasons to actually do it.
-  I opened Roth IRA accounts at Scottrade for Deb and myself. ‘The Bob Fund’ was built for a single account. I needed a new system that will manage multiple portfolios.
- ‘The Bob Fund’ runs on my Windows desktop machine at home. I wanted to design a new system that can run on an open source hosting service, freeing up my personal machine.
- I’ve been working in ASP.NET for awhile, and I don’t like it. I wanted to get back into PHP, and this is a good excuse to do that.
- I’ve learned a lot about XML and XML Stylesheets. It will be fun to design a new system from scratch, taking full advantage of these technologies by building them right into the core of it.
- I’ve just finished a book on web design called Don’t Make Me Think and I’m very eager to try out all the new stuff I’ve learned.
