Intuit Developer Blog
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QuickBooks Connect 2016 coming back to San Jose in October!
Did you notice? Earlier the week, Intuit announced the dates for QuickBooks Connect 2016! We’re in full swing planning for our return to the San Jose Convention Center on Oct. 23-26, 2016.
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Hello {Intuit Developer} World
Late last week, I officially started my new role as the leader of the Intuit Developer team. I’m excited to work with all of you in our community, and I’d like to share a little bit about me. I’ve held a variety of roles as a developer, manager, and engineering exec in startups and multi-national companies. Early in my career, I also founded a three-person startup on the Apple platform. I have walked in your shoes, and felt the pain and thrill of building a business on a platform.
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Designing for Downtime: Understanding the Cranky Path
As a self-taught, long-time application developer, I’ve learned many hard lessons. Most are common to us all: backup the database before dropping tables, ground yourself before messing with your server’s motherboard, review infinite loops that might spam the CEO, etc. Recently, I was reminded of one of the toughest lessons to learn: network calls will inevitably fail.
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New Year, New Hackathons: Get your code on with us!
Last year, we got our code on at several hackathons including Hack the North, the 2015 DeveloperWeek Hackathon, as well as a few Startup Weekends. We finished the year with a bang with our own $100k hackathon (check out the highlight reel and finalist pitches) at QuickBooks Connect.
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Google Analytics for App Listing Tracking
We’ve recently revised the “Google Analytics and QuickBooks Apps Store tracking” developer guide with all the latest details. It is intended for application developers who are familiar with Google Analytics and want to use it to track user activities related to their QuickBooks App Store app listing.
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What's New for Developers in QuickBooks Online?
Here’s a quick summary of new and changed features in the last few releases of QuickBooks Online for app developers. See the full Release Notes for all the details.
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Videos Available: Relive the #QBConnect Dev Sessions and #QBHack Finalist Pitches
Whether you attended QuickBooks Connect 2015 last November and want to review some of the talks, or you didn’t get there and weren’t able to attend and wonder what you missed, you’re in luck! We’ve posted videos of the Developer Track talks on the Intuit Developer YouTube channel.
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2016 Guide to Building a Small Business App and Launching on QuickBooks Apps.com
Congratulations! If you are reading this post, you plan on using the QuickBooks Online REST API v3 to seamlessly connect your app to QuickBooks Online (QBO) data and publish it on Apps.com. (If you aren’t, you may be missing out on the huge opportunity for developers in the small business market.) Think of this post as being your comprehensive guide to getting your small business solution in front of millions of QuickBooks users, and a network of over 100,000 QuickBooks ProAdvisors.
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It's a Wrap! 2015 Highlights for Intuit Developer
Developers! With 2016 only just days away, it’s time to reflect on all things 2015 – take a look back and take stock of all the accomplishments, milestones and updates that happened this year. Here are just a few of the highlights:
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Overview of Apps.com Review process
Building an app to help the lives of accountants and small businesses can be hard work, and it would be a shame for all that effort to not reach the people who could use it most. QuickBooks Apps.com is a repository that we manage for people who have built apps that integrate into QuickBooks Online. We do this primarily to make sure that our QuickBooks Online users can find the best apps to help run their business, but also to make sure that our developers get the help they need when distributing and marketing their app. In this post we will be covering the three reviews required to publish your app on QuickBooks Apps.com.