Quite a few new changes
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
Excellent news. You deserve it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
Congrats. I've got some good info on personal finance and spread sheet type thangs you need, but I can't get off my fat @rse to find them. When I get 30 minutes, I'll post something for your delictation.
Panic, Chaos, Destruction. My work here is done. or "Drink. Get drunk. Fall over." - P O'H
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Excellent news. You deserve it.
"WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith
As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
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No, this isn't about my kernel :) I got my first job last Wednesday, and sent off the contract yesterday morning. I'm now a Developer and Support Engineer; I suppose that makes me a professional and a mature, dysfunctional member of society. When I start in a week's time, I'll be the eighth worker. Unfortunately, this means I'll have to be moderately responsible, and have been trying to set up a spreadsheet to help manage my cashflow for each month. So far, that's not been working. I had settled upon one spreadsheet for every year, with the various months as worksheets within each workbook. This works well for tracking my money across various months, but not so across various years. The INDIRECT function could work, but it'd be messy. To get around this, I've been trying to work on a very basic application to do something similar - it's working very well, but are there any more developed alternatives that I've missed? At the moment, I just have a big list of BudgetElements - expenses just have a negative Amount property. The Tax property can account for a few things like tax and commission. Finally, I've picked something out to treat myself with. I'll finally be getting a dual monitor setup. At present, I'm just going by what seems popular on ebuyer; is this a good monitor to be getting? Desk space isn't really a problem
OSDev :)
gratz on the job. I'm in the same boat as far as contracts go. I have a basic spreadsheet going for budgeting, working so far. I know I'll get a little flogged during tax time as this month and last I'm playing catch up. and yes, I treated my self with a Benq 21.5 inch widescreen display for a duel screen setup... It's purtyyy... :D
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A good developer knows not to re-invent the wheel. There are quite a few packages out there that will have way more features than you could code in a spreadsheet in a reasonable amount of time for less than $100 like Quicken, and MS Money.
Congratulations from me too. I agree that you should get a personal money management program to take care of your finances. Unfortunately Quicken no longer sells or supports their product in the UK (only QuickBooks for businesses) but Microsoft Money is available. I'm sure there are also many free ones if you search. I'm hanging on to my five year old Quicken on XP - which will not work on W7!
It’s not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it’s because we do not dare that things are difficult. ~Seneca