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Get Organized with Confluence Personal Labels
It’s probably no surprise that Atlassian uses Confluence to everything. I estimate that at least 75% of the business content I interact with on a daily basis resides in our internal Confluence instance. All the projects I’m working on…the blog posts I’m writing….the meeting notes I take…the goals my boss wants me to accomplish…the company’s […]
Protip: Open in Eclipse & IntelliJ Shortcuts
All complex software inevitably has a swag of useful little features that whilst great aren’t that discoverable. After recently seeing several different people switching to their IDE and manually opening a file to dive into a source file they were looking at in Fisheye or Crucible, its clear that the open in IDE links fit […]
Upcoming webinar – Jira Bug Tracking with Zendesk
Next week, I’ll be a guest on a webinar hosted by Zendesk, talking about the advantages of integrating Jira with your Zendesk. In the session, we will cover the following: How Jira is useful for bug tracking and project management What data gets passed between applications What a development project without bug tracking tools looks […]
Announcing SharePoint Connector 1.1 – a Wiki for SharePoint
Since we launched the Confluence SharePoint Connector just over a year ago, we’ve gotten tremendous uptake from our customers. Hundreds of customers have found SharePoint’s more structured document-management capabilities to be a great complement to Confluence’s free-form wiki collaboration capabilities. The SharePoint Connector creates a far more powerful SharePoint wiki by letting you: Embed SharePoint […]
NPR.org moves from Bugzilla to Jira
A few months ago, Kim Bryant, NPR’s Manager of Application Operations for Digital Media, posted on Inside NPR.org about their move from Bugzilla to Jira in order to address challenges with “managing work requests, bug tracking and other operational processes.” In the second part of her blog series, Kim goes into the details about some of the frustrations of using Bugzilla for 4 1/2 years. She also drills into NPR’s top 5 reasons for switching to Jira.
Technical Writing @ Atlassian: join us in the first Atlassian Doc Sprint
The first Atlassian Doc Sprint will take place from Monday 22 to Wednesday 24 February 2010. It’s happening in Sydney, in San Francisco and online. You are invited! If you can’t join us in person, you can drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to […]
Continuous Integration for JavaScript using Bamboo
With the emergence of extremely interactive web sites and web apps, the JQuery library has become extremely popular for JavaScript event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions in rapid-development environments. The tight project timelines and rapid change for JQuery-based apps makes them great candidates for continuous integration. I recently came across a discussion thread on continuous […]
Upcoming Webinars Not to Miss
We have two webinars coming up that should not be missed. Plugin of the Month – Jira Bridge for HP Quality Center from Orasi Orasi is a leading provider of software testing services using the HP test management and automation technology. For over 15 years, Orasi has consistently helped customers successfully implement and integrate software […]
Jira 4 Performance – Part 2
Originally, we had intended to write a two-part blog series on the performance improvements in Jira 4. You may have already seen the first part, where George Barnett covered Jira 4 performance compared to Jira 3.13. In the second part, Mark Lassau was going to talk about the benefits of automated performance tests and the improvements to the Jira codebase made possible by the regular performance telemetry data. Check out how we combined Bamboo, Confluence, jira.atlassian.com and JMeter to aggressively improve our caching.
Reignite your content, projects and people within Confluence
This is the first of two guest posts by Erik Eccles from TaskDock, a Confluence plugin that lets you assign, track, and complete actions within Confluence and email. Our goal with these posts is to help you reignite the content, projects, and people within your Confluence instance or at a minimum learn how we approached […]
Confluence Community: Share Your User Macros
t dawned on me that there must be some really kick ass user macros that have been created by some of our 8,100 Confluence customers. So, I thought to myself, how can share these user macros? Use Confluence of course!
Atlassian Webinar Roundup
When I joined the marketing team at Atlassian, my first task was to create and run a successful Voice of the Customer and Plugin of the Month webinar series. Here we are, 17 months and over 32 webinars later, and I think we’ve done a pretty good job. Time flies when you are having fun! […]
(Case Study) Moving to Jira Studio at GenoLogics
GenoLogics has recently undertaken a HUGE migration from many of Atlassian’s installed products to Jira Studio, our hosted offering. We got the chance to catch up with Dylan Hansen from GenoLogics who speaks of this migration, how he learned about Jira Studio, and his experience with the Atassian support team. GenoLogics at-a-glance: Founded: 2001 Headquarters: […]
(Case Study) Powerhouse Museum exhibits prowess with Jira and Confluence
The Powerhouse Museum, based in Sydney, Australia – also known as the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences. The Powerhouse presents exhibitions and programs based on science and design, the ideas and technologies that have changed the world, and the stories of the people who inspire and create them. We spoke with Dan Collins, Powerhouse’s […]
Atlassian wins ‘Runner Up’ in Crunchies 2010
Amid the Crunchies award ceremony that included a juggler and escape artist, a chorus that sang a song to lampoon Silicon Valley, and way too many corny jokes, something fairly inspiring happened. Atlassian got the “Runner’s Up” position in the Best Enterprise award category. The overall winner was Google Docs. Sure, it’s pretty unusual to […]