Intuit Developer Blog
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Intuit Developer is heading to the LAUNCH Hackathon!
This weekend we will be sponsoring the LAUNCH Hackathon, three days of developers taking a break from their normal lives and working on a new project for the hope of fame and glory (and prizes!). We hope to see you there!
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Getting Started with QuickBooks? Five Insights From Your Fellow App Developers
During QuickBooks Connect 2015, I had the great opportunity to facilitate a panel with four of our existing developers. We talked about their experiences developing apps that integrate with QuickBooks and working with Intuit. Along the way, they had a few nuggets of sage advice for new developers just getting started.
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Intuit Celebrates Fifteen Years of APIs for QuickBooks
Fifteen years ago today, Intuit launched the Intuit Developer Network, released a draft spec of the 1st QuickBooks API, and announced the acquisition of Apps.com.
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Financial Data APIs: duplicate transaction fix
We are testing a new fix to solve for duplicate transactions in our Financial Data APIs. A small number of banks are having duplicate transaction issues caused by changes the bank makes to the transaction after it’s initially posted. As we looked across the Intuit ecosystem on how to handle this thorny issue, we found our colleagues working on bank data down under (Australia) had pioneered a fix that we’re eager to try out with our developers.
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REST essentials for the QuickBooks API
Hot off the press is a quick reference guide of REST API essentials that will help you get going with the QuickBooks API. All the details are in one place for both of the QuickBooks API domains: Accounting API and Payments API.
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Tech tips: Top 3 scenarios when you should issue an updateInstitutionLogin call
If you’re using our Financial Data APIs (formerly CAD), there are times you need to use updateInstitutionLogin. There are three particular scenarios highlighted for making this call.
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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.