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+History
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+
+I created my own private accounting application in Perl_/mod_perl_ in
+2007, as part of my personal website.  The first revision was made
+using Perl/Mojolicious_ in 2019, with the aim of making it
+mobile-friendly using Bootstrap_, and with modern back-end and
+front-end technologies such as jQuery.
+
+The second revision was done in Python_/Django_ in 2020, as I was
+looking to change my career from PHP_/Laravel_ to Python, but lacked
+experience with large Python projects.  I needed something in my
+portfolio and decided to work on the somewhat outdated Mojolicious
+project.
+
+Despite having no prior experience with Django, I spent two months
+working late nights to create the `Mia! Accounting Django`_
+application.  It took me another 1.5 months to make it an independent
+module, which I later released as an open source project on PyPI.
+
+The application worked nicely for my household bookkeeping for two
+years.  However, new demands arose over time, especially with tracking
+payables and receivables.  This was critical `during the pandemic`_ as
+more payments were made online with credit cards.
+
+The biggest issue I encountered was with
+`Django's MTV architectural pattern`_.  Django takes over the control
+flow.  I had to override several parts of the `class-based views`_ for
+different but yet simple control flow logic.  In the end, it became
+very difficult to track whether things went wrong because I overrode
+something or because it just wouldn't work with the basic assumption
+of the class-based views.  By the time I realized it, it was too late
+for me to drop Django's MTV and rewrite everything from class-based
+views to function-based views.
+
+Therefore, I decided to turn to microframeworks_ like Flask_.   After
+working with modularized Flask and FastAPI_ applications for two
+years, I returned to the project and wrote its third revision using
+Flask in 2023.
+
+
+.. _Perl: https://www.perl.org
+.. _mod_perl: https://perl.apache.org
+.. _Mojolicious: https://mojolicious.org
+.. _Bootstrap: https://getbootstrap.com
+.. _jQuery: https://jquery.com
+.. _Python: https://www.python.org
+.. _Django: https://www.djangoproject.com
+.. _PHP: https://www.php.net
+.. _Laravel: https://laravel.com
+.. _Mia! Accounting Django: https://github.com/imacat/mia-accounting-django
+.. _during the pandemic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
+.. _FastAPI: https://fastapi.tiangolo.com
+.. _Django's MTV architectural pattern: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/faq/general/#django-appears-to-be-a-mvc-framework-but-you-call-the-controller-the-view-and-the-view-the-template-how-come-you-don-t-use-the-standard-names
+.. _class-based views: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.2/topics/class-based-views/
+.. _microframeworks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microframework
+.. _Flask: https://flask.palletsprojects.com