{"id":5458,"date":"2025-07-31T14:59:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T21:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5458"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:14:02","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T22:14:02","slug":"zilchworks-turns-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5458","title":{"rendered":"ZilchWorks Turns 35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Mike Riley, a Marine vet, started his own company back in 1990, and created a product unlike anything else I\u2019ve ever seen: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zilchworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">ZilchWorks<\/a>. It\u2019s a personal debt management application, and helps people get a handle on what they owe and helps them plan their way until they owe\u2026zilch.<\/p>\n<p>The product has over 16,000 users and has been featured on <em>Good Morning, America<\/em>. There\u2019s a version for both Windows and Mac. Definitely go to the product\u2019s web site for details. <a href=\"https:\/\/capecodgunny.blogspot.com\/2025\/07\/35-year-old-turbo-pascal-program-gets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mike\u2019s recent blog post<\/a> on the latest release is very much worth reading, providing an illustrated history of the product.<\/p>\n<p>One reason I like and admire ZilchWorks is because it was originally written in Turbo Pascal for DOS, and later in Delphi, with the recent major release being compiled with Delphi 11.3 FMX. As a Pascal guy since 1980, I\u2019ve endured all the nervous slander from C bigots calling Pascal a \u201ckiddie language.\u201d And yet I know of a fair number of sophisticated software packages written in Delphi, and not for kiddies, heh. (I know of a few written in FreePascal\/Lazarus too.)<\/p>\n<p>Mike credits me for getting him started learning Pascal, of which I am proud, as I\u2019m proud of helping anybody get an initial grip on programming. I\u2019ve helped him here and there down the years, and I have the highest respect for his skills. Maintaining and selling a software package for 35 years\u2014with no end in sight\u2014is no small thing.<\/p>\n<p>If debt is an issue in your life, consider Zilchworks. Message Mike at <a href=\"mailto:rileymj@zilchworks.com\">rileymj@zilchworks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Mike Riley, a Marine vet, started his own company back in 1990, and created a product unlike anything else I\u2019ve ever seen: ZilchWorks. It\u2019s a personal debt management application, and helps people get a handle on what they owe and helps them plan their way until they owe\u2026zilch. The product has over 16,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noneoftheabove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5459,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5458\/revisions\/5459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}