This week is a milestone for our new accounting software. TurtleSoft now uses it full-time to run our own business. We have used it in parallel with Goldenseal for many short spells, but now data only goes into the new file.
The new app still has plenty of glitches. Using the software every day turns them up more quickly. Most are just annoyances that don’t take long to fix. If something more serious turns up, hopefully the daily backups will be enough to allow recovery.
The previous TurtleSoft company file had a few hundred bad Sales breakdowns buried in it, left over from similar beta testing in the early days of Goldenseal accounting. Most were fixed by the code that translates from Goldenseal to the new app, but some were too damaged. Those didn’t survive the transition and disappeared. In the new accounting app, at least that block of Sales records from the 1990s won’t crash any more when you view them. Now they just give an error message.
Meanwhile, work on a mobile version is progressing, but slowly. Android is very difficult to work with! Our staff has a comfy routine to build test apps on Mac and Windows, but phone and tablet are much more fussy. Mystery problems and error messages galore.
If the desktop app seems solid enough by the time Android work is finished, the first release will happen soon after that. If still too many bugs, it will wait until after work is completed for iPhone and iPad.
Dennis Kolva
Programming Director
TurtleSoft.com
