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A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK
Atlassian supergeeks have been happily engrossed in creating a brand new Atlassian Plugin SDK, to be ready for Codegeist and then to be hyperpolished for AtlasCamp. I’m the lucky technical writer who got to document the SDK. This has been such fun – yes, really – that I decided to write a blog post about […]
Oz News: Wiki Wed, SJUG, Agile Australia discount and more
Update on happenings in and around the Sydney Atlassian office and the Australian IT sector. This post – September and October events: Wiki Wednesday, SJUG, CSE Revue, Agile Australia (including discount code), Sydney Open House.
Jira 4 – Beta 3 now available
I am happy to announce that we have just released Jira 4 Beta 3. This release continues to build upon the 450+ fixes and enhancements to Jira. Check out the full release notes for all the details.
Announcing Atlassian Codegeist 2009
I’m happy to announce that starting today Codegeist 2009 is officially underway! If you’ve never heard of Codegeist before it is Atlassian’s annual development contest where developers like you can win huge prize packages for building plugins and integrations to Atlassian products. This year we will be awarding six prizes a Grand Prize winner and […]
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 2 – Retrieving Data
As part of our continuing series on Confluence for Business Intelligence, today we’re going to talk about the mechanics of getting data into a Confluence page. We need to know how to do this before we can start producing the fancy charts and dynamic reports that you typically associate with a Business Intelligence solution. Static […]
Atlassian at TED – Daniel Pink on 21st Century Motivation
Ted.com just posted the last month’s TED talks and, to our surprise, Atlassian was hailed by Dan Pink (best-selling author and former Al Gore speechwriter) as a company that motivates its employees in radical and effective ways. Specifically he mentions our ShipIt Days, where we set aside 1 1/2 days for developers to work on […]
Technical Writing In Agile Software Development – Part 1
When you first begin Technical Writing in an Agile environment, you face a number of immediate problems.
Agile 2009 Session – Code Review for Agile Teams
Are you attending Agile 2009 in Chicago this week? Interested in learning more about how code review can be effectively done in an agile teams context? Check out “Effective code reviews in agile teams” at 4:00 PM, Monday 8/24 in Grand Ballroom E. Wojciech Seliga and Slawomir Ginter, members of Atlassian’s development team, will talk […]
Video: Enterprise Tester by Catch Limited
A huge thank you goes out to Bryce Day of Catch Limited for giving us today’s Plugin of the Month webinar: Enterprise Tester. Bryce was kind enough to present at 4am in his Auckland NZ local time! It was a great webinar with a deep Q&A session. Enterprise Tester is a web based Test Management […]
Testing: You don't have to be Agile to be agile
Test teams don’t usually choose their organisations software development methodology. Hopefully the irony of being in such a situation is not lost on any teams that call themselves “Quality Assurance”. Still this doesn’t prevent test managers and test teams from adopting practices outside of the decreed methodology to their advantage.
Missed the Bamboo 2.3 webinar? Check out the recording
The webinar includes a quick summary of the new features, and then a demo of a real-world instance of Bamboo that runs in the Amazon EC2 cloud.
Confluence for Business Intelligence – Part 1
Everyone knows that Confluence is a great enterprise wiki. At Atlassian, we also use Confluence as our reporting and business intelligence tool for tracking sales activity, monitoring key support metrics and measuring marketing campaigns. We’ve developed powerful techniques to extract and share our company’s information using Confluence, and in this series of posts we’ll share […]
Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 1.2 is Available
Version 1.2 of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse is officially in the wild! This release includes a bunch of bug fixes and minor enhancements, plus the ability to download and install if you are behind a firewall and can’t use Eclipse’s plugin installation features. Check out the 1.2 release notes for more details The Atlassian […]
Power to the People! Host your own User Groups
From where I sit as Atlassian’s events manager, community is a big (maybe the biggest) part of what makes us Atlassian. For the past 3 or so years, we’ve been running our user group program. It’s been very successful, drawing about 50 people in each city. At the same time, our goal has always been […]
Webinar reminder: Enterprise Tester by Catch Limited
This Friday we’ll host this month’s Plugin of the Month webinar with Bryce Day of Catch Limited. Bryce will show off the Enterprise Tester. Enterprise Tester is a web based Test Management tool that implements a world first integration with Sparx Systems, Enterprise Architect and Jira allowing automated test script creation from UML models saving […]