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Sneak peek: REST in Jira 4.3 Milestone 1
We’re working on several improvements to the REST API in Jira 4.3. This is a sneak peek at what’s available in the first milestone release of Jira 4.3. Search for issues and projects using JQL One of the top complaints that we received regarding the REST API in Jira 4.2 was the lack of searching […]
How does Atlassian encourage software renewals?
Atlassian has a reputation for doing business somewhat differently than traditional Enterprise Software companies. Examples are: Providing free 30-day evaluations (with Support!) Showing all of our pricing on our website Having all of our documentation accessible online (to anybody!) Giving Source Code to our customers (no need for escrow agreements!) Having no salespeople Not requiring […]
Jira 4.3 Milestone 1 – Early Access Preview
Frequent releases are a characteristic of how we do things here at Atlassian. These milestones releases are available via the Early Access Program (EAP) and they come thick and fast for most of our products. The Jira team has been a little hit and miss with releasing regular milestone builds, but we are determined to […]
Webinar: Jira extended for Project Management
On December 2nd we will host a webinar on a tool which extends Jira for Project Management. Onepoint’s Jira Connector extends Jira’s project management capabilities by integrating them into a complete, but still easy-to-use enterprise project management solution. By combining the strengths of Jira’s dynamic agile task management environment with Onepoint’s built-in resource management and […]
Designing Jira – Paper Prototyping
Well it was bound to happen! The Colouring-In Team have regressed to our childhoods, picked up our crayons and got creative! Our previous work, pretty pages such as new View Issue, Issue Nav and dialogs, have all had quite small scope – though they weren’t small pieces of work. The next section we plan on […]
How to get a job at Atlassian – An insider’s perspective
Three and a half years ago I wrote a blog post titled How to get a job at Atlassian that described the process I went through to get hired. I now find myself on the “other side of the table”, looking through resumés from applicants and trying to find the A-players who will best fit […]
Jira 4.2 Deep Dive – using operation dialogs
This post is the second in a series of “deep dives” into the latest version of Jira. The first post talked about issue search and the Jira experience. Stay tuned to the Jira Blog for more details on Jira 4.2. Operation dialogs Initially, the addition of dialogs for nearly all common operations may not seem […]
Introducing Videos in PAC and MOustaches
People like videos Here at Atlassian we’ve always believed our products should be shown off just as much as a healthy moustache during the month of Movember. And we’ve always had great success using videos to show off our products. Nearly all of our product pages have a video outlining usage and major features. For […]
Even Better Word Export for Confluence with Scroll Office 2.1
This is a guest post by Stefan Kleineikenscheidt of K15t Software, one of Atlassian’s official partners. This post highlights the new features shipped in the latest release of Scroll Office, a Confluence plugin that allows you to collaborate and author your technical documentation in the wiki and generate beautifully styled Word documents with a single click.
Last chance to vote for the Ultimate Wallboard
With only three days left to vote for the Community Favourite in the Ultimate Wallboard contest, the competition is heating up. Several “HOT” entries have caught up quickly passed the early favourites and the race will definitely go down to the wire. As I write this, only 7 votes separate the top two wallboards and […]
New Bugzilla importer plugin for Jira
Updated: Check out Top 5 Reasons to GO Jira! After a successful Jira 4.2 release the Jira team is excited to announce a smaller, yet significant, beta release: The Jira Importers Plugin Importing your existing bug tracker into Jira As you may know, the current importer feature in Jira, aka the external system importer, allows […]
An interview with Chris Shipley on startups
Atlassian is a sponsor of Innovate!100, a global program to identify and promote up-and-coming technology and communications startups from around the world. Ever since releasing our Starter Licenses ($10 versions of our products, priced with startups in mind) we have sponsored several startup events and we even ran our own startup event last June. By […]
Accelerate wiki adoption and enhance usability with RefinedWiki
This is a guest post by Jimmy Lundström of RefinedWiki, an Atlassian Partner creating plugins to enhance the Confluence user interface. Branding your wiki can accelerate adoption Confluence, in its vanilla state, is a very powerful tool for collaboration, helping your employees create and share rich content online. The challenge for driving adoption within your […]
Bring The AtlasCamp 2010 Talk Videos
Campers, the wait for the AtlasCamp 2010 talk videos is over. Today we’re pleased to announced all AtlasCamp 2010 videos are online! Below we’ve highlighted Scott’s keynote along with the first two talks. Keynote and State of Atlassian – Scott Farquhar Scott gives us an update on the State of Atlassian, highlighting news and accomplishments […]
Technical Writing in a Wiki – Single Source Publishing
This post is the fifth in a series from Atlassian’s technical writing team about using a wiki for technical documentation. Last week Rosie Jameson wrote about managing documentation releases. In this post, I’ll cover single source publishing on a wiki. As technical writers, we always keep our readers’ and customers’ needs at the forefront of […]