Singapore Mutual Funds Widget

I started investing in mutual funds last month and immediately realized that there is no convenient tool for me to check my funds' daily performance. Though I have my profit and loss calculated in my portfolio, I wanted to have something like Yahoo Finance to check day to day price changes. The best I get was a table with 3 months of price, which was selected through drop down list twice and two mouse clicks for EACH fund. What a pain. Not to mention the price difference was not calculated. So every time I had to pull out my calc.exe and calculate the change in percentage.

Then an idea came and this is the result.



It's a UWA widget to track the latest change in Singapore based mutual funds price. It can be used in Netvibes, iGoogle, and Apple Dashboard.

I went into quite some trouble while creating this widget. Mostly from my lack of experience with notepad based web programming. Other problems come from the UWA itself. Standalone/local mode does differ from online mode. Sometimes it works in standalone but not in online mode. Oh the frustration...

Fortunately most questions are already answered in the forum. And also thanks to Firebug. I couldn't have made it without Firebug. What a super helpful tool, though I still have to learn how to use it for JavaScript debugging.

I used Aptana for code editor but sometimes it's to slow on my PC and I have to switch to my trusty notepad2. The code editor is convenient, but the slow motion is not.

Anyway, I managed to complete it in few days and thanks to Google Code Hosting, it's available as an open source under BSD license. Find the project page here. Feel free to contribute, ask for enhancement, whatever.

Enough of the long talk. The Netvibes ecosystem page is here.
You can install the widget to Netvibes or iGoogle using one of these buttons.




Last one. I have created another widget to show Formula 1 drivers and constructors standings. Currently doing some minor improvements but basic functionality is already there and I'm already using it.