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Today on twitter, Glen Gordon was telling me that Brendon Schwartz had an idea for today’s application:

glengordon @cjcraft here's an idea for a mobile app that @brendonschwartz will like - record $ spent during the day and where it was spent (with GPS) about 13 hours ago from Witty in reply to CJCraft

It’s a really good idea. Probably a better idea than we will be able to do it tonight, but we are all about taking the first small steps to accomplishing great things.

GeoCash

I love the name, it is a play on GeoCaching. Somehow it adds a lot of “buzz” to the application already.

The application is designed to be easy for the user to use and understand. The user only needs to enter the amount they spent along with a note, and then simply press log and it will be added to the GeoCash log.

We are using our own NumericTextBox to be sure the user doesn’t enter in any invalid amounts spent. We have another standard TextBox for the note input. Below this we have the log information. This is done using a WebBrowser control, and setting its DocumentText property.

The main reason to use the WebBrowser control is to be able to do a little better text formatting. This allowed us to easily markup our text in bold and color.

 

HTML formatted output:

   1: sb.AppendFormat(@"<b>Date:</b> {0}", DateTime.Now).Append("<br/>");

   2: sb.AppendFormat(@"<b>Amount:</b> <span style=""color:red"">{0:c}</span>", decimal.Parse(textBoxAmountSpent.Text)).Append("<br/>");

   3: sb.AppendFormat(@"<b>Note:</b> {0}", textBoxNote.Text).Append("<br/>");

   4: sb.AppendFormat(@"<b>Latitude:</b> {0}", position.Latitude).Append("<br/>");

   5: sb.AppendFormat(@"<b>Longitude:</b> {0}", position.Longitude).Append("<br/>");

   6: sb.Append("<br/>");

   7:  

   8: documentText += sb.ToString();

   9: webBrowser.DocumentText = documentText;

Possibilities:

I love this app. It has so many cool possibilities. You could easily save this information to a text file or sent it as an email. I think this is perfect data to do a mashup on for example create a heatmap etc for it so you can see the “dangerous” side of town you need to avoid taking your money into from now on.

Download executable: geoCash.cab

Download Source Code: geoCash.zip

Feedback:

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