Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Dane Mutters
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:44 -0800, Brian Vaughan wrote: On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:19 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than QuickBooks. Much better. You'd be doing

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Jan Claeys
Op zaterdag 06-03-2010 om 10:19 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Martin Owens: On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote: There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Am moving back to my hometown in a

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
intend on making the accounting program to replace all accounting programs. I will be making something which solves the problems of one man in Vermont, United States and anything above and beyond that in complexity and addition will have to come from other people solving things for their own needs

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Danny Piccirillo
.). It's very true, you have know what your making. IOW: every serious accounting application will need a dedicated company behind it... (or multiple companies if you want to go international). Lets be clear, I don't intend on making the accounting program to replace all accounting programs. I

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:32 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote: What if you created a framework that could add support for other states and countries so that a new application isn't needed for each case? Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available and of course just as

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Alan Pope
On 7 March 2010 19:47, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available and of course just as silly to not position it with other things in mind. Have you looked at OpenERP? It exists already, is written in python, is in the

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Jan Claeys
it... (or multiple companies if you want to go international). Lets be clear, I don't intend on making the accounting program to replace all accounting programs. I will be making something which solves the problems of one man in Vermont, United States and anything above and beyond

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread Martin Owens
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting program wants to be useful for more than a couple of other people it will need *a lot* of maintenance, and some changes will have rather short deadlines (the tax office won't buy

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
I am interested in being a customer. In what programming language are you planning to write this application? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting

Accounting Program

2010-03-06 Thread Martin Owens
Hi Brett, On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote: There's a plan for that. Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed up other people's interest? Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of getting in touch with the local

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-06 Thread Brian Vaughan
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:19 -0500, Martin Owens wrote: But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than QuickBooks. Much better. You'd be doing everyone a great service if you did. In my experience, QuickBooks