http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com "Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast" Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:55:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2010/01/08/rdf-personal-finance-database/ http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2010/01/08/rdf-personal-finance-database/#comments Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:24:22 +0000 ericg http://blawg.unfoldedmind.com/2010/01/08/rdf-personal-finance-database/ 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.

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We’ll see!

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