ClickTime Blog

Ruby and JavaScript Wrappers for ClickTime API

We want to recognize one of our customers, Imulus, a technology-focused design and interactive agency, who successfully utilized the ClickTime Web Services API on some of their recent internal projects. During their development work, they created a Ruby wrapper and a JavaScript wrapper for the ClickTime Web Services API. Imulus has now released the wrappers they created as open-source code so others can benefit from using them. These open-source wrappers can save time for other customers who integrate their own Ruby or JavaScript-based projects and back-end systems.

Thanks, Imulus! Read the Imulus blog post to learn more about what they did and examples of how to use the wrappers.

ClickTime Featured on Sencha Blog

Today we're pleased to appear in the Sencha blog as a customer success story.

If you've not heard of Sencha (and if you're not a JavaScript developer you probably haven't), they're the company behind the ExtJS Javascript framework. We use ExtJS extensively to make our web application more interactive and behave more like a desktop application. Sencha also produces Sencha Touch, a fantastic JavaScript framework for building mobile apps.

Check out the case study and let us know what you think of our new user interfaces.

QuickBooks 2011 R6 is better but not perfect

Intuit recently released the QuickBooks 2011 R6 update for the U.S./Windows versions of QuickBooks. This fixes various issues which you can read about on the Sleeter Group's blog. You can also read about the new and updated features in Release 6 (R6) on Intuit's blog. Unfortunately, this update doesn't resolve all of the issues when using QuickBooks on a computer with IE 9.

Additionally, the R6 update doesn't resolve a bug that can cause freezing in the ClickTime Connector. Intuit did tell us, thankfully, that the freezing bug will be fixed in the R7 update. We'll let you know as soon as that's available. In the meanwhile, if you are experiencing the freezing problem, we can provide you with Intuit's patch to fix the problem.

New system status blog

ClickTime is a 24/7/365 operation. When we deploy new features and perform maintenance on our servers, we need to briefly take the system down. These system events are announced several days in advance via email and through the use of in-application announcements. In addition to these existing notification methods, you can now also find news of our system events on our new blog: system.clicktime.com. Bookmark the URL or grab the RSS feed for the latest system status news.

San Francisco ExtJS Meetup Group at ClickTime

Last week, we welcomed the San Francisco ExtJS Meetup group to the ClickTime office. Several people from the Ext team were also on hand including Abraham Elias (CEO and President), Aaron Conran (Senior Software Architect and Ext Services Team Leader) and Tommy Maintz (Senior Software Architect).

The attendees listened to various presentations, including a couple by members of the ClickTime team. You can see pictures and read more about the event and the topics discussed on Mats Bryntse's blog.

If you're a web developer in the SF Bay Area, and are interested in ExtJS and building rich internet applications, the Meetup group is a great way to learn and share experiences with other developers.