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Jira 4.1 Deep Dive – Issues so fresh and so clean clean
As I mentioned in the Jira 4.1 announcement yesterday, we plan to do a deep dive on many of the new features and improvements in Jira 4.1. This is the first of many posts doing just that and I’ll start off with probably the most noticeable improvement: the view issue page. Our focus on user […]
Oz News: Devops Down Under
“Devops” is a movement of like-minded sysadmins and developers interested in bridging the artificial gap between our camps. It’s impossible for sysadmins to do their job without reading or writing code, and developers need intimate systems knowledge to scale their software. Building on the tremendous success of Devopsdays in 2009, Australian developers and sysadmins are […]
Optimizing your work day with the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse
Our friends at Tasktop have just published an awesome blog post about how developers can work more efficiently using the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse and Tasktop Pro. The Atlassian Connector for Eclipse is an Eclipse plugin that allows developers to access Jira issue tracking, Bamboo continuous integration, Crucible code reviews and Fisheye source code links […]
5 Steps to Start a User Group
This is a guest blog by two authors: Christian Dähn, who works as Senior Consultant for the Opitz Consulting GmbH, and René Dalock who works as a Consultant for the Trivadis GmbH in Hamburg, Germany. Christian and Rene run the Atlassian Hamburg User Group. In an effort to spread best practices, we are publishing guest […]
(Summit preview) Change and Release Management with Jira and Bamboo
This is our third blog post and preview of Atlassian Summit 2010. For the next few months leading up to Atlassian Summit, we’ll be publishing interviews and guest posts from our speakers and sponsors at the event. What are your titles and roles within the organization? Jonathan Doklovic – Founder, Systems Bliss Inc. Kevin Behrens […]
Jira 4.1 – Easier and faster issue tracking
I’m excited to announce the general availability of Jira 4.1. This release is packed with improvements making your everyday interactions with Jira easier and faster. A few of the highlights include the following: Clean and simple UI – Building on the UI improvements in Jira 4, the revamped issue and user profile pages make it […]
GreenHopper 4.4 for Jira 4.1 – plus gadgets, markers and more
I’m happy to announce the general availability of GreenHopper 4.4 (for Jira 4.1). In addition to providing compatibility with the latest release of Jira, this release also includes a handful of new improvements, including: Days Remaining gadget – This new gadget shows the number of days left in a given sprint or release (version). Perfect […]
Code reviews and the Jira workflow
In a previous blog we discussed how Jira can integrate with Crucible to link code reviews to issues. There were several comments on that post asking how to incorporate code reviews into the Jira workflow. A comment by Siri Vias Khalsa from Verifi explained how he has tackled code reviews and workflow: We have Crucible […]
Announcing Starter Day: Six Great Companies Share Their Secrets
Starter Day is a celebration of building great companies. We’ve assembled founders and executives from six kick-ass technology companies – Redfin, Boxee, Pandora, Hubspot, Scoutlabs and Aardvark – all customers of ours, to share their experiences around what it takes to make it. Each of these companies is in a different stage of growth, and they each have something unique to share.
Share documents in your enterprise wiki with Confluence 3.2
Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it incredibly easy to store and share files. With autocomplete and drag-and-drop, it’s never been easier to share your Microsoft Office Documents, PDF’s and images.
Bi-weekly blog roundup – foolish April edition
We met with one of our partners this week who complained — in a good way — that he couldn’t keep up with all our blog posts. Indeed, these days we are publishing more posts per week than we used to publish in a month. I suppose, then, that it doesn’t help that I’m publishing […]
What happens at Summit stays at Summit
April 15th is the date to remember. In the US, it’s tax day. It’s also the date that the Summit early-bird pricing ends. After the 15th a ticket to Atlassian’s biggest event of the year will cost you $200 more. And…this is an event that you don’t want to miss. One of the best parts […]
Integrating your Jira bug tracker with Atlassian developer tools
In case you are not following the Dev Tools Blog, I recently posted a blog series discussing Jira integration with Atlassian’s developer tools. The series provides information on how Jira can integrate with: Fisheye: view source code information associated with Jira issues and projects Crucible: start a code review on the source code that is […]
Fourwalls has gone rogue
The Interwebs has responded positively to yesterday’s announcement about our newest product release – fourwalls. We even stumbled across a Hitler’s Bunker parody video about the application, and wanted to include it here for other fans of fourwalls. Twitter has been awfully chatty about fourwalls as well. Our personal favorite really captures the potential of […]
Embed Microsoft Office documents in the Jira Studio wiki
Jira Studio 2.1, the latest release of Atlassian’s hosted software development suite, introduced support for embedding documents in the latest Microsoft Office format (*.docx, *xlsx, *.pptx) into any project wiki page. Jira Studio’s wiki is based on Atlassian’s Confluence 3.1 enterprise wiki, a great tool for creating, sharing and working on rich content, for both […]