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  1. Another AdWords API Office Hours hangout is happening right now! developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmd…
  2. Ask your AdWords API questions live in about 2 hours: developers.google.com/events/ahNzfmd… #hangout
  3. 1 day: "Keyword categories" have been deprecated. For v201109, you need to move to the "Product & Services Categories". goo.gl/GMeHC
  4. Are you using partial failures for criteria? In v201109 it's available for ads too.
  5. MutateJobService got much simpler. It just requires a list of operations, no more parts and streams. goo.gl/96d48
  6. Did you know that TrafiicEstimatorService now lets you filter out unwanted traffic using negative keywords? goo.gl/Nyqgt
  7. 2 days: Trying to map client emails to customer ids? Use the InfoService. goo.gl/Wm4Ht
  8. 6 days: Still using the clientEmail header? You'll need to migrate to clientCustomerId. goo.gl/Wm4Ht
  9. Join together the AD and CRITERIA reports to determine the effective destination URL for a given click. goo.gl/xTrau #faq
  10. 8 days: SimpleMutateJobs can operate only on one account at a time.
  11. The MutateJobService has no limits on the number of pending jobs - add as many as you require!
  12. Moving to MutateJobService is simple: just pass your operations to MutateJobService.mutate instead of service.mutate methods.
  13. 9 days: The MutateJobService automatically applies rate limiting and retries for transient failures.
  14. 12 days: Have to perform lots of mutate operations? Try the MutateJobService. goo.gl/PiyY4
  15. 13 days: We've added generic selector support to the AdParamService, allowing you to sort the returned values. goo.gl/Xilvd
  16. 14 days: We've released a Python Google AppEngine demo that shows how to run reports with OAuth. goo.gl/3Zc8r
  17. 15 days: OAuth access tokens never expire - no need to re-authenticate after the initial OAuth flow.
  18. 16 days: If you use OAuth with the AdWords API, you will no longer have to worry about CAPTCHA challenges as you did with ClientLogin.
  19. 17 days: With OAuth, you no longer need to request an email and password from the user - only Google sees this information.
  20. 18 days: OAuth is now fully supported by the AdWords API, with full client library support coming in the next few weeks.