It's been a slow week for my principle project, Phitext. Mainly, due to various distractions occurring in the business and in the industry at large.

Firstly, I feel the end of financial year fast approaching (June 30, Australia). This being the first year of Phiware I want to catch any gotcha's early. Lack of a (trusted) accountant does make things easier and I'm still getting used to the world of bookkeeping. I have very few physical receipts and invoices, having the majority of my business in cyberspace and all my operations online. So I want a shrink-wrapped solution to my bookkeeping needs and to help me fulfill my tax obligations. I've decided to sign up (free until August) at xero.com. Xero is a bookkeeping SaaS company from New Zealand, which is tailored to Aus and (obviously) NZ. My favourite feature is the fast bank reconciliation that automatically pulls transaction from PayPal and banks that have direct feeds. My financial institution doesn't have a direct feed but the import function is pretty spiffy too. My only gripe is that I have to pay a lot more just to get multiple currency support.

Second, I have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of my iPad, which finally arrived yesterday. I'm pleased to say Phitext works as expected, after a few bug fixes I might just be happy with v1.1. (Although I find it hard to meet my own high standards; the good enough solution for Phitext has been a hard one.)

Finally, there has been WWDC and I note that the session videos are now available to the rest of us iPhone devs not at the conference. Having just watched session 110, I believe I've made a design error and now I'm considering a small rewrite of PhiTextStorage and PhiTextFrame. So now I just need to muster up the courage to risk introducing a whole slew of bugs for some future proofing and a little efficiency gain. Of course, better design would possibly fix some bugs.