QuickBooks Transition To A Cocoa App
Our article on QuickBooks transition to a Cocoa App (among other things) is now up on the ADC web site.
I am not quoted in it. 
I think I was on vacation when they asked for quotes, or they forgot about asking me cause I’m remote.
However, Peggy’s very nice comment about one of the features I wrote last year is pretty cool:
“It’s really a beautiful thing,” says Chang, “to have this as an automatic process in the background. It’s a major benefit for customers who no longer have to copy and paste.”
My favourite thing that we have right now is our build machine stuff, coded by Chad. It sounds easy, but it’s very powerful (although not as powerful as the Newton build farm, but we’ll get there):
The list of Mac-only benefits in QuickBooks for Mac goes on. Here’s a final example: have you ever considered using iChat in your build process? Probably not. But the team creating QuickBooks for Mac did, and they’ve found it to be a useful tool. Here’s what they do. The build server is on the iChat buddy list for the team. An AppleScript process on the server checks for incoming iChat messages. When someone on the team sends a message (any message - “Hey there!”), the server automatically starts the build. The server then uses iChat status messages to reflect the status of the build—in process, complete, and so on. The team can easily keep track of what’s going wherever they are—in a meeting, in a cubicle, or in the Intuit cafeteria.
In any case, if anyone has any technical questions on what we’ve done, feel free to post a comment, and I’ll try to reply.
And go read Keith’s blog, he’s another developer on the team. Far more technical elegant in his blog than I.
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