RDF personal finance database
Friday, January 8, 2010
Okay, this is an idea that’s been developing in my mind ever since I realized how closely the secrets of the internals to Quicken® were held. Build a personal finance application that uses RDF as the backend store. every time I’ve tried to do something in an SQL database, or as a spreadsheet, I run into the problem of imperfect data representation: if you don’t get your table models pretty close to what you’ll need when everything is finished, you don’t really have much that’s useful. RDF gives you a graph representation that can mimic tables that are arbitrarily wide. RDF remebers facts that are important, while allowing you to change your mind about what’s essential. I’ll post more once I know more.

