By Matt Abar on 12/22/2008 5:00 PM

It's time to write our interfaces. I'm not sure any aspect of writing portfolio management software is "fun" in the traditional sense. But if I had to make a list of the software pieces I was looking forward to, custodial interfaces would end up close to the bottom.

But as the walrus said, the time has come. We need to import custodial data and there's still no generic data transfer spec for the industry. So for the third time in my life, I have to write interfaces to the same companies. Again.

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By Matt Abar on 12/19/2008 5:04 PM

As I've mentioned before, I see one of FinFolio's competitive advantages being the open architecture and plugin nature of our technology. We're making it easy for someone to extend our software and customize it for a particular firm. You'll be able to add fields, create new reports in Crystal, and add custom screens, interfaces and data alerts. We did two Developer Preview releases before the alpha that had some of this functionality available at the object level.

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By Matt Abar on 12/12/2008 6:16 PM

I just posted Alpha 1a to the site. We spent the last two weeks cleaning up the existing screens, redesigning the import and print wizard, and stabilizing the software by fixing numerous crashing bugs. We've added all the icons, generally cleaned everything up and it's looking sharp. We're really seeing the payoff now on the new (and sometimes painful) technology decisions we've made.

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By Matt Abar on 12/4/2008 4:13 PM

It feels great getting the alpha out. I've been demoing it to the beta group and getting very good feedback. The general impression seems to be that we're "on the right track." We're planning on doing another release next week to fix some of the worst system-crashing bugs. We've also done a lot of work on the screens.

On to other items--FinFolio is hiring again! This time for a WPF/C# developer.

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By Matt Abar on 12/2/2008 1:42 AM

We posted the FinFolio Alpha on the site yesterday. It's the desktop version only, with a few working screens, a couple reports, and one working interface. For now, it only works in client/server mode so don't try to run it over the wire. It's really rough--even for an alpha. There are too many known issues to list, so I won't try. Expect it to crash a lot and you won't be disappointed. ;-)

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