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Get ready for HackVAN

by Corey Reid  |  August 15/2011  |  , ,
Get ready for HackVAN

HackVanHackVAN kicks off this Saturday, August 20 at the Mozilla headquarters in beautiful downtown Vancouver. HackDays are fantastic events, and at HackVAN, just $10 gets you get a full day’s worth of hacking, app-building, and hilarity. You’ll even …



TechTalksTO full-day developer conference set for August 13th

by Jason Diller  |  July 5/2011  |  , ,
TechTalksTO full-day developer conference set for August 13th

TechTalksTOFor the past year or so, FreshBooks has been proud to sponsor TechTalksTO, an ongoing speaker series for software developers in the Toronto Area. We’ve held several great talks featuring speakers from Twitter, Twilio,


Contest: FreshBooks API & Twilio

by Jamaal Montasser  |  June 1/2011  |  , ,
Contest: FreshBooks API & Twilio

Are you developer who loves to integrate two great online serves? FreshBooks is having a contest just for you! To enter, you must create a tool using both Twilio (an SMS and voice communication API) and FreshBooks (using the …



Visualization: FreshBooks code-base over time

by John Coates  |  May 4/2011  |  , , ,
Visualization: FreshBooks code-base over time

For more technical insight and API help with FreshBooks, head on over to the FreshBooks Developer blog. One of our newest developers, Anton, created this amazing visualization (using a code swarm) of how the FreshBooks code-base has changed over time. He found a visual way of representing all the …



TechTalksTO: 2 Usability lessons from Twitter

TechTalksTO: 2 Usability lessons from Twitter

TechTalksTO“Don’t let your site be broken!” One of several lessons Ben Cherry shared at the latest sold out TechTalksTO (supported by FreshBooks). He spoke to the code-savvy crowd about best practices for development strategies and proven rules for maintaining solid and consistent …



Value Fun: The FreshBooks Hack-Off

by Corey Reid  |  February 11/2011  |  , , ,
Value Fun: The FreshBooks Hack-Off

This was originally posted on the FreshBooks Developer Blog. We’re pretty busy at FreshBooks. Like lots of companies; there’s always a ton of work to do, and sometimes it can be hard to keep your eye on the longer-term goals. Having fun, for example. We value fun at FreshBooks — people do their best …



FreshBooks website redesign

by Casey McKinnon  |  February 9/2011  |  , ,
FreshBooks website redesign

Woo-hoo! FreshBooks has a new website design and we’re hoping you like it. FreshBooks - Online Invoicing, Time Tracking & Billing Software After many years of only small revisions, the hard working …



TechTalksTO ReCap: “Agile at Well.ca”

by Sheheryar Sewani  |  January 11/2011  |  , ,
TechTalksTO ReCap: “Agile at Well.ca”

TechTalksTO Videos: Agile @ Well.ca: How We Think + Do Development: Part 1 & Part 2. On November 10, at a sold out TechTalksTO, Ali Asaria and Mat Trudel gave an incredibly entertaining talk on agile development at Well.ca and the philosophy behind their …



Doing More, Doing Better: QA at FreshBooks

Doing More, Doing Better: QA at FreshBooks

For more posts like this one, explore the FreshBooks Developers Blog. This chart makes me very happy and thankful for one of our teams. At FreshBooks, we track all sorts of statistics, release by release, and this chart compares two …



Making code lazy to improve page performance

Making code lazy to improve page performance

Browsers are way faster than they used to be. Nearly everything — bandwidth, client processing power, storage — is cheaper than it was. However, one thing that is still really expensive is interacting with the DOM. Changing and modifying the Document Object …




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