Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:35:12 GMT | no comments
and a copy paste from a Facebook update from the Green Party of Canada.
Breaking News: Greens are Canada's new third party!
2:58am Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
Dear Friends,
Today is a historic first for the Green Party of Canada.
Today, for the first time in our 24-year history, we are polling as one of Canada's top three parties in a national survey of voter intentions.
The Green Party is nationally in third place. We can win seats. You can help us do it.
The latest Strategic Counsel survey for the Globe and Mail/CTV News shows that the Green Party with 13% has overtaken both the NDP (12%) and the Bloc Quebecois (11%) for the first time ever. Also, Green support in the west now stands at a strong 18%, ahead of the fourth-place NDP (16%).
We must ask for Canadians' help to ensure that Elizabeth May is in the nationally televised leaders' debates. If Elizabeth is in the debates, there is no doubt in my mind that we will elect Green MPs.
[The Green Party has never won any seats in Canada (federally or provincially), nor has the Green Party been included in any televised debates... yet]
Visit the group for more info. :)
Posted in Just Budget, Tech / Computers / Programming, Canadian Politics, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:59:32 GMT | no comments
In my last post I was talking about increasing blog activity and I left you all without any reply for two months.... How bad am I ???
Very sorry,... so here is a gift...
Biweekly recurring expenses (and more).
Yes I remade the internals of the recurring expenses system. and it is much better, much faster and much more flexible.
so many of you ask for it... and for so long. sorry I kept you waiting. Here it is now.
you can do, daily recurring expenses, weekly, biweekly, "twice a month", monthly and bimonthly.
have fun.
and thanks very much for using justbudget and for telling all your friends to do so.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sat, 25 Aug 2007 08:48:43 GMT | no comments
I think I have been leaving my justbudget users in the blank for too long. I am really not blogging as often as I would wish. Sorry about that. I always intended to update the FAQ page on the site with the answers to the questions I receive. (by the way, many thanks for all your questions and comments and sorry for the delay).
Many of these answers would be useful to many users but unfortunately I never had the time to collect them all up and rewrite them properly into the FAQ. So I am thinking maybe I should just post the answer straight up on my blog (which is shown on the news page of justbudget). This way people can read them. It's google-able and information is never lost.
Another thing that might interest you is an article I found recently. I already talked about it on my regular blog. A friend of mine recommended me a personal finance related website. Get Rich Slowly which I found really interesting. Every page of the website invite us to read the "About" page which link to the origin of the website: A blog post. I highly recommend anybody interested in achieving financial independence to read this article first.
If you take a careful look at the "Step One: Prepare the Foundation" which includes 3 steps in its own. The second one of these is about cutting expenses. And I cannot stress this enough; The world as we know it keep pushing us to consume more and more, it's getting harder and harder to keep ourselves from buying all the new toys available.
anyway, the important point here is that if you keep spending, you quickly lose track of where all your money goes. Being always conscious can be stressful and very difficult. Just track your expenses somewhere so you can easily look them up anytime.
- so you know where you can cut
- so you can remember how much you paid for something the year or the month before.
- so you can easily remember where and when you went somewhere.
- and more
I love it.
So I am gonna start answering all emails directly on my blog very soon. stay tuned.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Tue, 03 Apr 2007 23:58:01 GMT | 2 comments
Hello everybody,
Today there is a small addition into justbudget. Something I wanted to do for a long time. As expected, it only took me a few minutes. Anyway it's done now.
When you create a new expense, you can select in which budget you want the expense to be inserted. This way, you don't have to switch budget before. I often forget to switch budget when I login and then I have to recreate my expenses in the proper budget. But now, I can just select it as I create the expense. It is also possible for you to edit an expense and change in which budget the expense is.
I hope this will be useful to other people.
Have fun and happy budgeting.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Mon, 26 Feb 2007 05:16:26 GMT | no comments
From Chris:
In a world where fast access is everything, this service is right on time. Its simple, easy to use and effective in showing your cash flows. Thank you JustBudget team for allowing one more aspect of my life to be centralized and organized online.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:42:00 GMT | no comments
I kept it secret until today, but as some of you might know already. Justbudget has been translated in Japanese. I put the translation file on Oct 15th. If you see any mistakes, please submit them to me, I'll make sure it get corrected. And today I have another great surprise toward Japanese support in Justbudget. I finally fixed the 3dpie graph so it can display Japanese properly. I tried numerous attempt in the past year and I never could fine the proper combinaison to make everything work.
Probably the same bug was present with Chinese, Korean, etc. So the fix should do it for all. Unfortunately I can only test Japanese on my computer. So if you got category written in Japanese or any other Language, it should display fine in the flash chart.
Happy budgeting.
Posted in Just Budget, About Japan, 日本人のために書きました, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Tue, 24 Oct 2006 07:26:00 GMT | 1 comment
So I finally created my Squidoo lens. Actually, My first squidoo lens is about justbudget, my little baby (web applicationaly speaking).
Squidoo is a free service that allow you to create a web page easily and earn money from it. I'm not totally sure how it works yet. but it seems like they share google advertising profits with the lensmaster. So, basically I am trying this out. see how much traffic this is gonna generate.
but one thing is sure, It was blazing fast to create my lens. thanks to RSS of course, most of the content is pulled from this blog. I might decide to create more lens later about other subject I care about. I am thinking, about KDE, Japan, Sports and who knows what.
Why don't you create your own lens to? You can earn cash and get famous. Go ahead.
Posted in Just Budget, Tech / Computers / Programming, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:56:00 GMT | 1 comment
I just found this interesting article about how to create zero-based budget. Zero-based budget basically means that all your expenses should balance out your incomes, that the total of your incomes minus the total of your expenses must equal zero. Doing so requires you to create a category for every single dollar you win.
The idea is interresting. and Justbudget does that for you automatically. Justbudget creates a virtual category called Saving. So every dollar you are not spending goes automatically into this category. Just enter up all your income and expenses and justbudget calculate the whole thing automatically.
Justbudget also answers to the 3-reasons-most-budgets-dont-work. because justbudget does not ask you to guess what you are gonna spend but ask you to input your real data. with real data you get real information. So it does reflect reality. It does connect from one month to the next. and it does keep track the surplus money left over after all the categories are filled.
I am always trilled when I find such articles and I realize that my software solves those common design flaws already. Thank you for using Justbudget and send me comments so it continue to improve.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:14:00 GMT | no comments
Today I am very proud to announce the immediate availability of justbudget in french and german. They are the first version of the translations so, they might need minor adjustments. If you got any comments or suggestion, please feel free to submit your thought as a comment to this post.
also if you have trouble accessing justbudget in your language, feel free to ask for it. it should be automatic according to your browser language setting. but in case you cannot access the french or german version. please ask.
if you think the idea is great and you would like to see justbudget in your own language, feel free to offer your help translating it in your own language.
also, I would like to offer my best thanks to the my translators who made it possible. its awesome to see the first translation live. please everyone offer them a round of applause.
and as a little surprise I got something else for you all. I created a forum for justbudget users. You can use it as you wish to discuss anything related with budgets, saving money and using my software. I created international forums for non-english discussion. I am gonna create more as it grows.
cheers,
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:59:00 GMT | no comments
Hello everybody, thanks for reading and thanks for using justbudget. It's very sad I don't have more time to put on this project because I really enjoy every minute I am putting on it. It became very pretty and very stable in my humble opinion. Well, at least I don't have much problem with it. If you do, you would tell me, right?
anyway, I'm posting this today to tell you about the recent changes that I made in justbudget.
click 'more' to read on....
Read more...
Posted in Just Budget, About Japan, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:19:00 GMT | no comments
It is justbudget users that will be happy. Another feature has been rolled out in justbudget today. You can now merge your accounts into one.
For those of you who may have multiple accounts and would like them to be merged into one. It is not possible and very easy to do. Expenses and other information will still be logically separated. That's it, the old account will simply become a separate budget into your main account. and the old login/password access will be deleted.
If you only have one account and you are not sure of what I am talking about. Don't worry, you can simply forget about this feature. it simply does not apply to you.
For the others, simply go into the edit budget page, enter the login/password of your second account you want to terminate. click confirm. and that's it.
also more design problems has been fixed. and I created a news page instead of redirecting to my blog.
That's about it I think.
enjoy.
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:12:00 GMT | 2 comments
Hello everyone,
A little update and a invitation to participate to this great project.
First, I've fixed most design/layout bugs. every pages should be looking good now. If you do find any disgusting glitches or have any comments, speak out loud, its appreciated.
As a second update, I made the modification necessary to allow Justbudget to be translated in your own language. Few people already offered me to translate justbudget in their own language. If you would like to help, please don't hesitate reitering your offer. This invitation also stands for correcting the english version.
I know you wanted your parents to use justbudget but they could not read english, ... it's your chance to help.
thanks
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:37:00 GMT | no comments
Wo, it took a long time before I actually take the time to deliver this to the world. Sorry for the long wait. the Current justbudget was starting to show his age.
here is a quick list of what changed since the last version. I hope you gonna like the new version. I have put a lot of work into it. sorry it took so long, but I think it was worth the wait. In the future we will definitely see more regular and smaller updates. Bringing a new design along with Major features was just a lot at the same time for a single person.
I will appreciate every comments and questions you may have. you can post them here as comments or on the justbudget help page. Also make sure to tell me if you encounter bugs, problems or just annoying little things.
I'm very excited about this, please tell me what you think.
[ click 'Read More' for the changes ]
Read more...
Posted in Just Budget, English
Posted by Mathieu Jobin
Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:00:00 GMT | no comments
Well, since I have not done it already, I'd like to take this opportunity to introduce you to my little baby, If I haven't already.
I made justbudget back in march 2005 to answer this craving need that everybody has, saving money. My girlfriend was travelling, visiting my country at the time and I was already planning to visit her country at some point. So I needed to save money. It's actually a web application I always dreamed of building but never did because of all those reasons you already know. Well, I did it.
The idea is very simple, it replace the excel spreadsheets or the paper work that you would be doing. And makes it easier to enter your information and gives you more, for free. Free as in "no cost" and as in "no extra work". What more ? Well, a lot more and this is too early to start enumerating them. But think stats, graphs and real food.
Read more...
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