X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=8c17a0eac56e13e8e9d2c9eaf058412936a6ca60;hb=40e08b2914d04f0dbb0faa8879ae6d8e0c2b794b;hp=91013fa6dd90070d4b7a020b95aa157269b8f636;hpb=d1d8bb97a779ca5d32e6b42286a577e3493600d0;p=bluechips.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 91013fa..8c17a0e 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -71,4 +71,21 @@ configuration: The ``bluechips.wsgi`` wrapper script looks just like: from paste.deploy import loadapp - application = loadapp('config:/var/www/ssl/production.ini') + application = loadapp('config:/var/www/ssl/config.ini') + +Acknowledgments +--------------- + +BlueChips is the latest in a long line of software to make managing +group finances easier, and would not be possible without the +intellectual inspiration of those predecessors. + +CUTCAT's [accounting software][cutcat] started the trend of +software-based accounting mechanisms. It inspired a re-implementation +as a curses script by [Nelson Elhage][nelhage], which introduced the +notion of "pushing expenditures" to simplify transfers. The algorithm +used in BlueChips for settling the books is directly cargo-culted from +Nelson's implementation. + +[cutcat]: http://cutc.at/accounting-software.html +[nelhage]: http://nelhage.com/