Yeah by now you’ve heard of GAP - Google’s App Engine. It’s all the buzz these days. One thing I’m excited about is this statement:

I’d also like to mention that Python is the just first language that we’re offering with App Engine. We’re working on more, but for now, we’d like to get feedback from you on the system as a whole, to see what you like.

How much do you wanna bet that ruby is next? (though I can see php slipping in there too.)

I’ve been looking for a nice little web app for my wife and I to manage our finances. I stumbled onto Wesabe a while back and slowly but surely been putting my financial info into in. it was OK, but seemed to be missing two important features: Auto upload (Please don’t make me login to my bank’s website… it’s way too much work before I even get going) and a simple budget so I can see how much $ I have left to spend (or see if I went over).

Wesabe knocked the first one out by throwing a firefox add-on our way that auto uploads your data from your bank. +10 for that one, guys.

Now with auto-uploads from my accounts to Wesabe, I was almost there… one glaring feature missing. Budgeting! How can I know if I went over my limit? Luckily I read a blog post about how “Jason” the CEO of Wesabe would be available on the phone for questions every afternoon, from 12 to 4 p.m. PST. Yeah right! I was finishing up my late lunch today when I thought - why not? I’ve got a question - how do I get a budget going?

I pick up my cell and after 2 rings I was talking to Jason… the CEO. Pretty cool. I ask him about how I can set up a budget to track my spending. He told me about a dropdown on the Spending Summary page that will let you set a “spending target” (come to find out that people don’t like the word “budget”… so they call it a “spending target”) This is exactly what I’m looking for.

My only complaint is that this feature wasn’t in the FAQ or in the sidebar for me to easily find - I hope they fix that. I thanked Jason and that was it. He said if there’s any other suggestions to email him.

Pretty sweet deal if you ask me. I got my problem solved by speaking with the CEO directly. Imagine if you could do that with other company’s products.

Thanks Wesabe.

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http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/12/22/do-you-blog-about-ubuntu/

Good point. I blog about ubuntu, do you?

Thanks Railscasts!

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I’ve updated my lds.org greasemonkey script to link to both google and yahoo maps. Find it here: Spicy Ward Web File

UPDATE: It’s new home is here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/8357

I’ve just updated my SpicyWardWeb greasemonkey script to include SkypeOut links next to the phone numbers in the membership directory. You can find it here.

I’ve just hacked together a beta version of what I hope will be the start of some ultra-cool greasemonkey scripts for lds.org. I’ve called mine SpicyWardWeb and it modifies your ward website membership directory page by adding google maps links to the addresses. I’m up for more cool ideas to implement. Let me know what you think. XPath rocks!

To use it you’ll need Firefox and Greasemonkey.

and it begins… About Gmail Paper

my new tumblelog: http://scottyb.tumblr.com/

One of *the* coolest things in the ever colliding worlds of Asterisk and Ruby: Adhearsion