weSpendMoney

This has been one busy month, besides the usual development on weSpendMoney I was also envolved on the creation of “ruby<<portuguese”, a portal dedicated to spread the word about the Ruby programming language and the Rails framework for web development among portuguese speaking countries.

The site will have a blog running on Mephisto, a wiki to hold tips and tricks, tutorials, cheat sheets and other informations. We’ve also created a google group so that everyone can make questions or discuss topics related to Ruby or Rails.

For me being part of this project is very exciting, we’ve already planned some meetings and there’s already many people interested in knowing more about Ruby. In the meantime there’s already some good projects being developed in Portugal like GoPlan.

This week I bought a Mac Mini, it was a good step towards the development of weSpendMoney (I couldn’t believe I was missing TextMate all this time) and we’re trying to recover lost time.

In the meantime and just for the fun of it, I’ve uploaded 3 images to Flickr and made this little preview of the expenses page where most of the action for the application is going to happen, well at least here is where people will add transactions, browse to a specific day or month (yeah future or past).

You can also view your expenses by tags (there on the right) and for now, I’m ordering them by value, so the largest red one that says “Apple” was from my Mac Mini purchase, while the green one that says “salario” was actually my fake salary for the month.

The overall theme is finished, I like the current look and feel, it’s simple and the colors are not too agressive or anything. I haven’t included the montly limits by tags or the reports page because I haven’t decided on some particular aspects.
So head over to my little Flickr Gallery and take a look at the screenshots. What did you think? Does it look stupid? Or too simple? Do you like it more complicated?