July 4, 2008

New 401(k) doesn’t even support QIF

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— drasch @ 9:18 am

The 401(k) program we switched to this year happens to have been a step backward as far as support for exporting transactions. In talking with Alan about it, he said he’d downloaded a program to convert the CSV they export into a QIF. In looking at the QIF format, I just decided to whip up something to do the conversion for me. This converts the export from MVP Plan Administrators to QIF and imports successfully into Quicken for Mac 2007.


#!/usr/bin/perl

#based on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QIF

open(INH, "< ". $ARGV[0]);
open(OUTH, ">". $ARGV[0]. ".qif");

print OUTH '!Account
NDavid\'s New 401k
TInvst
^
!Type:Invst
';

<INH>

while (<INH>) {
        chop;
        chop;
        s/\$//g;
        @vals = split /,/;

        if ($vals[3] eq 'RECEIVABL') {
                next;
        }
        print OUTH "D" . $vals[0] . "\n";
        print OUTH "N" . $vals[5] . "\n";
        print OUTH "Y" . $vals[4] . "\n";
        print OUTH "T" . $vals[9] . "\n";
        print OUTH "I" . $vals[8] . "\n";
        print OUTH "Q" . $vals[7] . "\n";
        print OUTH "M" . $vals[6] . "\n";
        print OUTH "^\n";
}

close OUTH;

Known issues:

  • You still need to go through and mark Dividend transactions as such.
  • Doesn’t handle Sells very well, especially when these are to cover fund fees

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June 18, 2008

FuelFrog and U.S. Gas Prices

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— drasch @ 12:01 am

us gas prices

Our FuelFrog users are paying much more at the pump these days! On average, our users fill up 11 gallons which means they’re paying an additional $5 at the pump per fillup!

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May 29, 2008

FuelFrog with Metric and Direct Messaging Support

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— drasch @ 10:05 pm

FuelFrog was updated last weekend with support for metric units. We now support liters, meters, and can show your efficiency in l/100km (lower is better) which gets used by many more sensible countries for monitoring their fuel usage.

Upon releasing this, we got an email from a user in the UK who informed us that they measure distance in miles, volume in liters, and efficiency in miles per gallon. This threw me for a bit of a loop and I had to make some “special cases” for the UK.

In any case, we’re now happy to also offer support for our UK users and hopefully provide them data in the units with which they’re most familiar.

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May 14, 2008

mashups

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— drasch @ 6:35 pm

There are really awesome things about being able to put apps together in our connected “web 2.0″ world. There are also downsides and tradeoffs as with any decision.

When Twitter is down, it makes it hard for people to try FuelFrog. Screenshot courtesy of is twitter down?

Twitter Down

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