March 6, 2010
First up, in regards to this comment – Hamilton 1.1.6 is now available for download . For now, this will be the last version of Hamilton, and is available for free.
I’m rewriting the internals of Hamilton, the bits that actually calculate the values of your Savings Bonds, and plan to make them available as an open source product that you’ll be free to modify and use as you see fit. From the feedback I received about Hamilton 1.1.x people have a variety of things they’d like to be able to do and ways they’d like to manage their bonds – too many for me to reconcile into a Hamilton 2.0 product alongside the contract development that fills my days at this point.
Stay tuned for more details on the open-sourcing of some of the Hamilton code…
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October 2, 2009
I just posted Hamilton 1.1.5 with a few minor bug fixes. Unfortunately haven’t made much progress on Hamilton 1.5 lately, just been too busy with work 
- Steve
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September 5, 2009
Hamilton 1.1.4 is now available for download. It’s a 32-64 bit Universal binary for Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6. Development slowly continues on Hamilton 1.5, still targeting a release this year – I’m swamped with contract work at the moment!
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August 9, 2009
It’s been a while since my last Hamilton release, development is slowly continuing on an update that tries to incorporate as much feedback from the 1.x release as possible. I’ve been consumed with contract work which pays the bills around here, but wanted to let everyone know that Hamilton is still alive, still an app I very much use and want to continue developing.
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January 19, 2009
I just released Hamilton 1.1.3 which includes the latest value data from the US Treasury within the application itself.
Additionally,this release includes fixes for a bug reported in 1.1.2 regarding the 30 day demo period notification, as well as a fix for the long-standing bug that caused the total value in the lower right corner of the application to not update when the pricing date was changed.
I’m still busy with contract work, but development is slowly continuing on another major update to Hamilton.
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August 10, 2008
I’ve received a few questions from people about how to import Savings Bonds from other programs where they haven’t entered their complete Serial Numbers. For example, they may only have the series and denomination instead of a complete serial number such as M555123456EE.
If you’ve got a CSV file to work with, you can open it using Excel, Numbers, CSVEdit, or any text editor of your choice. If you don’t want to enter the actual digits of the serial number from the front of your paper bond, you can simply use zeros instead, with the correct prefixes and suffixes.
The denomination codes are:
- 50 = L
- 75 = K
- 100 = C
- 250 = R
- 500 = D
- 1000 = M
- 5000 = V
- 10000 = X
The series codes are:
- E Bond = E
- EE Bond = EE
- I Bond = I
So for example if you have a $100 I bond without the serial number digits, you can edit the CSV file so that the Serial Number field for the bond reads “C00000000I”.
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June 3, 2008
I just released Hamilton 1.1.2 which includes the latest value data from the US Treasury with the application itself. If you’re already running 1.1.1 and have downloaded the latest data when Hamilton prompted you to, this is a low priority update.
I’m continuing work on 1.2, albeit at a slower pace than 1.1 since some contract work, another app, and a new baby has taken priority over 1.2 development for the time being.
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May 11, 2008
In case you missed the announcement of new rates for I and EE series bonds, here’s a summary and some analysis by Tom Adams of http://savings-bond-advisor.com
In other news I’m making good progress on Hamilton 1.2 so stay tuned for some screenshots and feature updates soon.
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May 1, 2008
Ooops!
I just fixed a silly bug that in some cases would prevent a button from showing up in the “Demo Expiration” dialog box to let you enter in a license code once your 30 day trial has expired.
Hamilton version 1.1.1 is now available with a fix in place. If you’re using 1.1 please upgrade as soon as you can.
Sorry!
- Steve
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April 22, 2008
After a brief private beta and just under a month after Hamilton 1.0 shipped, I’m happy to release Hamilton 1.1 today. Thanks to everyone who downloaded, tried out 1.0, and sent me their feedback. I wasn’t able to get everyone’s feature suggestions in for this release but will try to include as many as I can in 1.2 this summer.
Download 1.1 today!
Here’s what’s new in 1.1:
- Support for E Bonds
Hamilton now supports the E series of US Savings Bonds that were issued between 1941 and 1980. Many of these have already reached maturity the bonds issued in the late 70s are still earning interest.
- Search
I added a toolbar to the application window that has a new search field to let you quickly search by serial number. If you’re looking for a specific bond or a few bonds with similar serial numbers, finding them just got a lot easier.
- HTML Import & Export
Hamilton can now import HTML files generated by the US Treasury’s online Savings Bond Calculator, and can also export a HTML file that let’s you load your bonds back into the Savings Bond Calculator. It’s your data, use it where you like it!
- More CSV!
When exporting to CSV more information about your bonds is exported than just the Serial Number and Issue Date.
- Improved Error Handling
When importing CSV, HTML, or creating bonds by hand – errors with serial numbers and issue dates are handled much more gracefully.
- Printing
You can now print a basic report of your savings bonds (or just the selected group) and their information and value
- Better Groups:
You can now create a new group simply by dragging a selection of bonds to the list of groups. When groups are created their name is automatically selected for editing so you don’t have to double-click them right away to rename them either.
- More Clear Value Label
The total value label in the lower right-hand corner of the application window now only shows the total value of the bonds in the selected group. It no longer shows the total of the selected bonds, some people found this confusing and it wasn’t always easy to tell what the value was representing.
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