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Bug Tracking Evolved: Atlassian Announces Jira 4
SAN FRANCISCO (BUSINESS WIRE) — Atlassian today announced the release of Jira 4, the latest version of one of the most widely used issue trackers. Jira 4 includes OpenSocial gadgets, improved dashboards, Jira Query Language (JQL) for power search and filtering, activity streams and nearly 1000 other features and improvements. Pricing now starts at just […]
There's an app for that…wait, there's two!
Not all of us like being stuck in the office, in-fact some of us will take every opportunity to get out! Then there’s those of us who are always on the road, that’s just your job right? Even if you’re not in the office, you can still be connected. That is of course if you […]
Oz News: October 09
Who needs Oktoberfest as an excuse to party? Hope you can join us at some of the great events that are happening around Sydney and in our office this month. October is shaping up to be a busy month, even without adding in our 3 big announcements for next week. SJUG – JavaFX: The future […]
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 7 – Security
This post is seventh (and final) in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. In this series we’ve explained how to connect Confluence to a database to produce useful and dynamic reports for your business. When you do this, you’re giving your users new capabilities and access to data that they might […]
Codegeist IV: Release Early, Release often
We’ve got a bit over a week left in Codegeist IV. With over $50k in cash and prizes up for grabs, there’s a lot riding on this contest. We’ve already seen the first few entries go up on the Entries page. I just wanted to take a second to encourage everyone to get your entries […]
Using ClearCase? Check out our Fisheye & Crucible Early Access Programs!
We are pleased to announce that an alpha release of Fisheye and Crucible with support for IBM Rational ClearCase is now available for download via Atlassian’s early access program (EAP). By introducing support for ClearCase in Fisheye we also make is possible to leverage Crucible to perform code reviews on top of code residing in […]
Creating a Personal 'Dashboard'
The Formula: personal space + macros + =widgets = your own personal ‘dashboard’ Confluence has a great Global Dashboard that gives you an overview of the site’s most recent activity and access to all the spaces you have the permission to see. It’s the first page you see when you login and it gives you […]
Did you miss our 8-part Bamboo customer story series?
Earlier this year, John Ferguson Smart of Wakaleo Consulting wrote a great series of posts with interesting customer use cases involving Bamboo for continuous integration. Did you miss it? No worries, here are links to the series, in it’s entirety! Bamboo Customer Stories (1/8): Johan’s Outsourcing Blues Bamboo Customer Stories (2/8): Aligning work habits Bamboo […]
Sydney Atlassian Open House
Invitation to our inaugural Sydney Open House on Thursday 29th October 2009.
Writing Plugins in Scala
Why Scala? Scala is currently gaining a lot of traction in the Java community, for a number of reasons. Twitter replaced its Ruby-based messaging backbone with one written in Scala. It also has a lot going for it as a language and also compiles to bytecode just as Java does (Martin Odersky wrote both the […]
Express Yourself with Clover EL
A little known – but very powerful feature of Clover is its built-in Expression Language. The Expression Language allows developers or managers to combine any of Clover’s 30 report metrics using simple arithmetic expressions. For example, the CRAP metric which is defined as: CRAP(m) = comp(m)^2 * (1 — cov(m)/100)^3 + comp(m) Where comp(m) is […]
Two Tickets To Defrag – Going once….twice….
As a gold sponsor, Atlassian was lucky enough to score two free tickets to Defrag 09 taking place in Denver from November 11-12. That’s a value of $1,495 each! What is Defrag? Well, Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the “social” aspect of software to accelerate […]
Atlassian Command Line Interface plugins updated
Did you know that you can automate Atlassian tools via the command line? Bob Swift has just posted the latest version of the Atlassian Command Line Interface to the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. The command line interface is built on top of Atlassian’s REST and Remote APIs, and are well documented on confluence.atlassian.com Individual CLI documentation […]
Webworks ePublisher – Publish DITA, Framemaker and Word to Confluence
Last week Sarah Maddox and I were fortunate enough to get a personal demo of WebWorks’ ePublisher platform from Ben Allums and Alan Porter at WebWorks. ePublisher bills itself as an online conversion platform that transforms FrameMaker, Word, and DITA-XML content into Web and online help deliverables. In their latest release, ePublisher 2009.2, WebWorks added […]
Come to AtlasCamp – but don't take our word for it
AtlasCamp is just around the corner. In fact, there is less then 1 week left before our group room rate expires. So if you’re planning on attending, get on it! If you’re not planning on attending, you’re nuts. This is your only chance to get one-on-one time with Atlassian developers and the founders for three […]