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DevTools Greatest Release Event Of All Time
The Friday before last, the Dev Tools teams (Crucible, Fisheye, Clover and Bamboo) went out on a fantastic release excursion. We started out by trekking out to the Powerhouse museum for a backstage tour of the archive basement. We saw some pretty ancient artefacts (technologically speaking), including a NeXTcube, the very first tote board created […]
Video: Project Zeus, the Contegix Cloud Computing Offering
This morning we held a webinar with our partner and friend, Matthew Porter, of Contegix. Matthew went over their enterprise cloud computing service called Zeus. Zeus is based on VMWare’s powerful ESX hypervisors, with a custom API built on top. Contegix will be offering not only unmanaged utility VMs, but fully managed virtual machines as […]
You Can Do That! Part 3 of 3
Finally, unlike traditional wiki software, Confluence gives you the tools to create an identity in the workplace and form networks with coworkers. Confluence’s personal pages let you see who you are working with and learn about their interests on the job and what they do in their free time. This fosters stronger communities and can […]
Recruitment – 5 tips from Aussie software house Atlassian
Atlassian is growing, and we haven’t stopped hiring for the past 6 years. This year alone we want to expand our Sydney engineering team by hiring an additional 32 engineers! Interestingly, we are in a tough market when it comes to hiring good people. The economy is spiraling down and people are afraid to move […]
Links from our docs to your blogs
Sometimes there just are gaps in our documentation. I’m an Atlassian technical writer, so I’m allowed to say that. Sometimes people have a very specific requirement or setup that is not in our scope to document. And sometimes bloggers fill the gaps by writing technical posts about how to do something cool with one of […]
Bamboo 2.3 is Available – See Elastic Bamboo in Action!
Bamboo 2.3 has just been released and is available for immediate download. This release expands support for scaling your continuous integration (CI) build system into the Amazon EC2 cloud, and makes it easier to manage complex builds as your team’s use of CI grows. New features and enhancements include: Improved Amazon EC2 Support, including multiple […]
Find Atlassian Japan on Twitter! (アトラシアンが日本語でつぶやきはじめました！)
Finally, we have opened a Japanese Twitter account and now, we can tweet in Japanese. Kampai! Use the following hashtag #AtlassianJ in order to make it easy to track related tweets. You may also use the hashtag for communicating with other Japanese users on Twitter. Additionally, you can tweet to us using @AtlassianJapan. We will […]
Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 4 – Optimizing
This post is fourth in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. Now that you’re pulling your data onto Confluence pages and making it into eye-popping charts, your reports might be so popular that they’re putting a strain on your database. A flashy executive dashboard that shows daily stats from every division […]
How Clover helps Internal Systems sleep at night
We here in Internal Systems have started work on a fairly typical-for-us project: we’re rewriting the application that sends data from our ordering system (HAMS) to our financial system (Netsuite). FISC, the new application, will provide a REST-based interface which HAMS will call upon invoice payment. It’s not a technically difficult or even a large […]
Webinar: Enterprise Tester by Catch Limited
In just a few weeks we will be hosting the Plugin of the Month webinar with Bryce Day of Catch Limited. Bryce will be presenting 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 […]
Holding Aggro
A couple of months after I blogged about the role of the Disturbed in the Confluence team, it has come around to being my turn to take on the job. At stand-up this morning, we realised there’s a pretty strong parallel between what the Disturbed does, and playing World of Warcraft.
Atlassian is hiring 32 engineers in Sydney!
Atlassian is looking for 32 engineers in Sydney to help us build kick arse tools Why should you apply? Because life at Atlassian is pretty awesome! We’ve created a great culture of openness and honesty, with no bullshit and no bureaucracy. And you get to work with a bunch of great teammates. Little plug: today […]
Calling all Devs – AtlasCamp 2009!
AtlasCamp, our 2.5 day developer conference, is back for its second year! Whip out your iPhones (or Palm Pres for those boycotting Apple’s Google Voice embargo) and mark these dates down: October 21 -23! This year’s event is located at the Oceano Hotel and Spa in Half Moon Bay. Just 20 miles south of San […]
Wiki Theater – Five Patterns For Massive Wiki Adoption
At least year’s Web 2.0 Expo, Atlassian’s one and only Jeffrey Walker delivered a highly-lauded presentation on on how to drive wiki wiki adoption in the enterprise. This year Jeffrey couldn’t attend so we filled the void as best we could. So without further ado, here’s the last Wiki Theater presentation from Web 2.0 Expo […]
jQuery Bondage
Abstract: Rich web applications with large DOMs can create a new class of performance headaches for web developers. Seb Ruiz discusses this problem as recently faced in the user interface rewrite of Fisheye and Crucible 2.0, his team’s solution and the pitfalls. In a Bind An increasingly common challenge for developers of rich web applications […]