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Self, Inc

By Nick Hodge | November 21, 2006

In July this year, Mike Sey­fang, (cur­rently bat­tling short-sighted politi­cians in South Aus­tralia in a medium they don’t under­stand); wel­comed me to “Self, Inc”.

Today I cre­ated my first invoice using SQL-Ledger. After some quick learn­ing of LaTeX; and re-learning of basic account­ing rules — it’s all go!

On the SQL-Ledger side: it is an Open-source ERP that has an Aus­tralian chart-of-accounts (ready for GST and BAS). Writ­ten in Perl, which is a little step back­wards; the data is stored in Post­gres. This bodes well for integ­ra­tion with a future install­a­tion of a small CRM.

So, no longer with Adobe and out on my own. The free­dom to do what I want is both scary and exciting.

Com­ing soon: com­pany web site and phone numbers.

Topics: latex, sql-ledger, technology | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “Self, Inc”

  1. mike seyfang Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 3:49 pm

    Only UncleN­ick would over-engineer his first invoice to this degree!

    I look for­ward to the day that this infra­struc­ture is burst­ing at the seams due to the suc­cess of your endeavours.

    (And hope that you remem­ber me when you are famous)

    UncleMike

  2. hodgenick Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 3:52 pm

    Thanks for the com­pli­ment, I think :-)

    Web-based ERP is the best thing. I think back to 1992/3 imple­ment­ing an Oracle SQL/Forms based applic­a­tion and know the world has come a long way.

    Account­ing, on the other hand, remains the same.

  3. Andrew Smith Says:
    November 21st, 2006 at 7:56 pm

    Con­grats Nick. Well done on the magical first invoice … and I hope they pay you on time.

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