FreshBooks Blog – 2006

Ajax Lesson 01

by Daniel Tsang | February 22/2006 | cost of goods sold

Today I will be blogging about AJAX. AJAX uses a number of old web technologies, but it has recently become a very hot topic. A number of cool web applications like Google Maps as well as new email services like Windows Live Mail Beta use AJAX. You may even have noticed it in our application …

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It’s Not About the Invoice, It’s About the Experience

by Mike McDerment | February 16/2006 | cost of goods sold

It’s interesting getting feedback from web designers. We have been building 2ndSite for over three years now. There is still a lot we have in mind and many places we plan to go. One of the things that has really helped us grow and guide our development is user feedback. We like it and we …

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Flack for Change?

by Mike McDerment | February 14/2006 | cost of goods sold

I just came across a post that points out that the site you are on is a new site and a stark contrast to our old site to, which I say, “yes it is!” We are happy about that and currently rebuilding that old site to reflect a whole bunch of things, but mainly what we have …

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Death to our Brand

by Daniel Tsang | February 10/2006 | cost of goods sold

Did you know we are going to kill our brand? http://www.brandmurder.com/ Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it

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API Released – version 1.11

by Daniel Tsang | February 8/2006 | cost of goods sold

Hi everyone. My name is Daniel and welcome to my first blog post. I am a member of the FreshBooks development/support team and today I am proud to introduce to you our new API (Application Program Interface). Click here to download our API For those of you who are not familiar with an API, an …

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AJAX…62% good?

by Mike McDerment | February 6/2006 | AJAX, cost of goods sold, Flash

I remember when FLASH was the big thing. I was a freelancer and it was 1999. I went to so many web sites. Almost all of them were a let down. Questionable content presented in frustrating ways. People got caught up in FLASH. Everyone was a Flash developer. At the time, FLASH (or at least …

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Does Product Quality Finally Matter Most?

by Mike McDerment | February 3/2006 | cost of goods sold

Dave Winer just released a great post concerning how the market for software products, and the marketing of them, has changed. One of the things he said is this: “But none of that means that I can’t find enough users for my aggregator, and you for yours, to be able to continue development and influence the …

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Next Release (v 3.2) Coming Tuesday February 7th, 2006

by Mike McDerment | February 3/2006 | cost of goods sold

We released version 3.1 two and a half weeks ago and we are really excited to let you know about version 3.2. It’s coming Tuesday February 7th, first thing in the morning (EST). This release will require a very brief period of downtime (about 10-20 minutes on the high side) and will include: Some REALLY …

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About This Blog: Intersection

by Mike McDerment | February 2/2006 | cost of goods sold

Let’s start with the name: Why “Intersection”? Well, this blog is going to be regularly updated with topical content. What kind of content? Web DESIGN content. Web DEVELOPMENT content. Web MARKETING content. This blog is going to tie these three things together. It’s NOT going to be the crossroads of these things - it’s going to be the …

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