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(Summit preview) Motorola: Eclipse integration with Jira, Fisheye, Mylyn, Perforce
Atlassian Summit is less than 90 days away. Thinking about attending? Then you’ve come to the right place; for the next few months leading up to Atlassian Summit, we’ll be publishing interviews and guest posts from our speakers and sponsors on our blogs. Speaker: Motorola Interview with Heather Mardis and Brian Tarbox of Motorola on […]
Webinar: Jira Studio and Google Apps Integration
Please join us for a webinar Tue, Mar 30 at 9am to learn about the Jira Studio and Google Apps integration. Michael Knighten, Director of Hosted Services, will demo the wealth of integration points which includes: integrated user management and single sign-on access to Jira Studio from Google universal navigation links attaching Google Docs to […]
Bi-weekly blog roundup
It’s been more than two weeks since the last roundup, so I might break the rule to share some of the posts that were published earlier. In addition to the Atlassian-centric blogs, there’s a new blog in town and it’s written by a bunch of phreaks… marketing phreaks, that is. Introducing the MarketingPhreaks blog, written […]
Five smashing take-aways from GDC
Last week, Atlassian had a booth at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. This was our first time at the 25 year-old conference. We were a little nervous about being the new kids on the block and about not having a sweet game to show off. We decided we needed a friend with […]
Atlassian Summit 2010 agenda announced
The agenda for Atlassian Summit 2010 is now live! We received nearly 100 speaking submissions, nearly 3 times as many as last year, from customers and partners around the world. It was a grueling test to pick just a handful of topics from all the submissions. We tried to select topics that complemented one another […]
Upcoming Webinars
We have a few webinars coming up which you should not miss. 25 Mar 2010 – Plugin of the Month: Tempo Plugin for Jira Tempo sits on Jira with support for billing and salary administration with sophisticated time-tracking and cost reporting capabilities. The Tempo plugin creates solutions for any project by allowing staff to register […]
Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0 – Better Crucible reviews and more
The latest release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse is now available. This version of the Eclipse plugin introduces significant improvements for using Atlassian’s Crucible code review tool on your desktop, as well as heaps of bug fixes and minor improvements. Review and edit code – At the same time! The new Crucible Review perspective […]
Game Development Survey 2010 Results
As I mentioned previously, in preparation for the Game Developers Conference 2010 Atlassian decided to survey our game development customers to find out a little more about their teams and how they use our tools. The survey was sent to almost 600 customers at over 150 different game development companies and we got responses from over 35 different companies. Check out the results..
(Case Study) InstantAction on Game Development
Founded: 2001 Offices: HQ in Las Vegas, NV. Also 2 offices in Oregon: Eugene and Portland. Industry: Web-based gaming Employees: ~100 Tools used: Jira, GreenHopper, Confluence As part of our participation in the Game Developer Conference 2010 (GDC10) in San Francisco, we reached out to nearly 600 of our game development customers to see who […]
Taking on new graduates
Wow, this year has gone by so fast. It seems like only yesterday that we had a group of outstanding graduate developers join Atlassian. Last year’s new graduates have been involved in writing some awesome software that is now being used by millions of Atlassian users worldwide. We have recently opened the applications for this […]
Atlassian wins a Hewitt Best Employer 2009 Highly Commended Award
I’m happy to share some good news with you! Atlassian Sydney was awarded a Hewitt Best Employer Highly Commended award last week as part of their 2009 study. As part of the process, we undertook an opinion survey of our staff with our results showing we have a fantastic engagement score of 87% (well above […]
3 (More) Lessons from Building Software Development Tools for Google MarketPlace – Part II
3 (More) Lessons from Building Software Development Tools for Google MarketPlace (Part I) In the previous article, I described how we came up with the idea for the Jira Studio Activity Bar as part of our Google Market Place and Jira Studio integration. Things were going pretty well. We were able to get data from […]
3 Lessons from Building Software Development Tools for Google MarketPlace
Part I: 3 Lessons from Building Software Development Tools for Google MarketPlace (Part II) By now you have probably heard about the Google Market Place and Jira Studio integration. If not, the short version is that Google has created a place for users of Google Apps to sign up for third party hosted, SaaS offerings […]
Cognitive RPM – Why developers think they don't like code review
Code review improves code quality. That’s widely accepted as fact. Yet relatively few shops do code review. Why is this so? Well I think it’s because people still associate code review with meetings and developers who like meetings are a small group. Why do we hate meetings so? I don’t think it’s because they are […]
On the road with The Startup Bus
As some of you may have read a few days ago we announced that Atlassian was sponsoring The Startup Bus in its journey from San Francisco to Austin, TX for SXSW interactive 2010, and I was the lucky Atlassian who was selected to go along for the ride.