By Matt Abar on 11/27/2008 11:09 AM

Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm writing this from Las Vegas, we flew in last night and are visiting my wife's family for the weekend. The last couple days at work were fun; the software has gelled and we can finally play around with it, moving from screen to screen, simulating actual advisor work flows. In my own experience, and in the couple demos I did yesterday, the coolest feature seems to be the Process Manager, which runs things like reports and imports in the background. It's an obvious next step for PMS technology, and I hadn't realized how well it would demo. It scored the highest on the important "Oohs and Ahhs" scale.

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By Matt Abar on 11/7/2008 11:05 AM

We've been tracking the speed of various "bottleneck" processes throughout FinFolio's development. I run them from time to time, to make sure there aren't any surprises waiting for us. We're up to 13 different tests. Each test runs an isolated feature multiple times and reports the average time per run. The Per # (ms) column is the average amount of time it takes to run the test, and the # Per Second column is the number of tests that can run per second.

These results are on my development box, which has two 4-core processors, 8GB RAM, and Vista-64. However, the tests are single threaded, so when I run them on a single processor machine with 2GB of RAM, they're only marginally slower.

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