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Confluence + Wufoo, it’s a match made in heaven!
There is a pretty kick-ass feature in the latest Confluence release, Confluence 2.10.3, which slipped right under my nose. It’s an addition to the list of the many supported web services for Jens’s awesome Widget Connector. Best of all, it’s free to use!
Video: Confluence Approvals Workflow Plugin
Roberto Dominguez from Comala Tech gave a great presentation today on his Approvals Workflow Plugin for our Plugin of the Month webinar series. This plugin is extremely diverse; you can completely customize the plugin’s use by setting up each individual workflow. Due to this customization, it is no wonder that almost every customer has a […]
Bamboo JMeter Aggregator – Getting the most from performance builds
When I first started working at Atlassian, my team, Jira Studio, was working on load testing, with the goal of identifying and fixing performance issues. We used JMeter to simulate a high load, and used its graphing capabilities to report on the results. This worked really well. Having achieved our initial goals, we then wanted […]
Syntax Highlighting for Google Gadgets
At Atlassian, we’ve been on the Google Gadgets gravy train for the past few months. Working with gadgets means you’ll be working a lot with HTML & JavaScript stuck in XML files. Since the IDE picks up the file as an XML file, you end up losing the syntax highlight sugar coating you know and […]
Sharing stories about wikis the Pecha Kucha way
At an event organized by Karen Huffman from National Geographic Society several of our customers share their stories about wikis using the Pecha Kucha presentation style. Each presentation is limited to 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide. This blog post contains the archived versions of the introduction and first presentation by Karen Huffman herself.
Bamboo Customer Stories (8/8): Continuous Integration for Ruby
This Bamboo customer story is the final of an 8-part blog series about why so many developers adopt continuous integration written by our guest blogger, John Ferguson Smart. Last time we talked about clever tools to optimize Continuous Integration, and this week we cover Continuous Integration for Ruby.
Confluence 3.0 Beta now available
Confluence 3 enters the beta phase. You can download it or try it out on our public servers. We would love to hear from you, so have a look and tell us what you think!
Bike to Work Day in San Francisco
Yesterday San Francisco celebrated Bike to Work Day. A celebration of biking, healthy lifestyles and green living, Bike to Work Day attracted over 200,000 bikers in San Francisco to leave their cars at home and commute on two wheels. We have roughly a dozen cyclists in our SF office and a few of us decided […]
Video: Agile with S1 Enterprise’s CTO
Yesterday we ran a must-see Voice of the Customer webinar with Jeff Schilling, CTO of S1 Enterprise. S1 Enterprise is the leading provider of integrated front office software applications for financial institutions of all sizes. Jeff, self proclaimed Atlassian fan-boy, started with an installation of Jira. His team liked it so much they decided to […]
Inside Atlassian: 7 answers about Twitter for business
Jeremiah Owyang raised some interesting thoughts over at his blog about 7 Questions Some Brands Are Asking About Twitter . To my great surprise we haven’t had anyone talk on the news blog about how we’re using twitter at Atlassian, so I thought I would give Jeremiah’s questions a crack and hopefully provide an insight […]
Quantum Mechanics and Unit Testing
Does unit testing exhibit quantum behaviour? Of course it does!
Webinar: Approvals Workflow Plugin for Confluence
Roberto Dominguez of ComalaTech will show off the Approvals Workflow Plugin for Confluence in next week’s Plugin of the Month webinar. Certain controls required by SOX, FDA, ISO 9001, and general governance practices have limited the areas in which collaboration tools can be used. The Approvals Workflow plugin integrates seamlessly with Confluence to provide an […]
yUML for simple Confluence diagrams
So you want to create a diagram showing how a user might navigate through your app? Then yUML, a new service by Tobin Harris from the Engine Room is a cheap and easy way to do it. There are a few web-based tools for creating diagrams, but what’s unique about yUML is it’s implementation. How […]
Bamboo Customer Stories (7/8): Clever tools to optimize Continuous Integration
This Bamboo customer story is the seventh of an 8-part blog series about why so many developers adopt continuous integration written by our guest blogger, John Ferguson Smart. Last time we talked about automating the staging and production deployments using Maven, Jira, and Bamboo, and this week we cover clever tools to optimize Continuous Integration.
Webcast: Case studies of Confluence design patterns, adoption, architecture and more
We’re absolutely stoked to have been invited to participate in “Sharing Wikis Stories the Pecha Kucha Way” taking place this Thursday. On May 14, a local Washington, D.C. area group of experts at US government and non-governmental organizations will discuss their implementation of and best practice models for wikis. If you’re in the D.C. area […]