Wednesday, September 10, 2003
Dog Food
There is a technical expression, "eating your own dog food", that means using your own product. I've been procrastinating for a long time to start using Abassis. Truth is, I've been using Excel for three years to manage my finances. The first year spreadsheet was pure trash. The second year's spreadsheed took control of where I did expend my money. And now, the third year spreadsheet is also capable of managing my monthly budget.
Althought I have to put up with some issues and annoying features of Excel (the main reason that led me to develop Abassis), entering everything into Abassis wasn't easy, so I kept procrastinating until now. Yesterday I've started inputing all transactions since January, 2003 into Abassis. Only yesterday I was able to identify three bugs (one show stopper) and think about small changes to facilitate the input of transaction data.
Soon I will launch version 1.1 with these fixes, and eating my own dog food on a daily basis will guarantee that Abassis will always ba an easy to use and solid program.
There is a technical expression, "eating your own dog food", that means using your own product. I've been procrastinating for a long time to start using Abassis. Truth is, I've been using Excel for three years to manage my finances. The first year spreadsheet was pure trash. The second year's spreadsheed took control of where I did expend my money. And now, the third year spreadsheet is also capable of managing my monthly budget.
Althought I have to put up with some issues and annoying features of Excel (the main reason that led me to develop Abassis), entering everything into Abassis wasn't easy, so I kept procrastinating until now. Yesterday I've started inputing all transactions since January, 2003 into Abassis. Only yesterday I was able to identify three bugs (one show stopper) and think about small changes to facilitate the input of transaction data.
Soon I will launch version 1.1 with these fixes, and eating my own dog food on a daily basis will guarantee that Abassis will always ba an easy to use and solid program.
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