On the road to 1.0

Despite a very busy summer, both personally and professionally (and a personal set back just last weekend), the release went well. I've switched to capistrano for deployments and this will make future releases a push button affair.

Here's a list of changes in this release:

• Demo account. Try Pennyminder without having to create an account and enter a bunch of bogus data.
• Renamed 'Budgets' to 'Journals'
  
• Consistent use of Deposit and Withdrawal (in place of debit and credit)
• Usability improvements to the forms. Improved screen and field labels. Removed/hid unneeded fields. Improved the error reporting.
  
• New Dashboard: Overview of all journals and current financial status. View upcoming and past due scheduled items. View 5 most recent items. Totals for each journal.
• New 'index' and 'learn more' pages. They still suck.

There are a couple of known issues with this release:

• If you end up with errors on the forms, the cancel link points to the form page instead of the page you came from.
• There appears to be a bug in the balance forward calculation for the first month of items. It seems fine going off into the future.

And lastly, the upcoming releases will include the following features:

• OFX import. Upload your bank statements.
• Projected end of day and end of month balances for each journal.
• Item tags

These and a few more would (in my opinion) constitute a One point Oh release.