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What Wikis can Learn from Kapla Blocks
Last Christmas my son got a set of Kapla blocks which have since become his favorite toy. For the uninitiated, Kapla blocks are small, flat blocks of wood around 4″ x 1″ x .25.” wide. They are the simplest toy you can think of, even simpler than LEGOS. Most adults look at the blocks and […]
Major milestones for Fisheye, Crucible and Clover
During the holidays there are many reasons to celebrate, and for us here at Atlassian, the month of December included some very significant milestones for our developer tools. We now have over 1200 organisations using Fisheye to search and navigate their source code repositories, over 650 using Crucible to conduct online peer code reviews, and over 600 using Clover to improve their test coverage.
Confluence and Technical Documentation
Just a friendly reminder that in 2 weeks our next Voice of the Customer webinar will take place. This webinar will be with Jon Hertzig of OpenCloud who will discuss using Confluence for their product documentation. Register now! OpenCloud provides the telecommunications industry with a real-time Application Server for agile development, deployment and efficient management […]
Switching from Open Source to Jira; Part 1: How?
Often times, we’re asked about switching from an Open Source Issue Tracking tool to Jira. This 2 part series will first look at the tools available to help you switch, and then we’ll have a Case Study from a customer who made the switch. This time, let’s talk about the “how“: How do you make […]
You’ve Seen the Movie…Now Watch the Trailer
With our hearts are warm with holiday cheer and our bellies full of egg nog, we’d like to share with you a little video we created to internally promote our recent confluence video series. We hope it brings some joy to all the Bob Cratchits out there stuck behind a monitor, warming themselves on their […]
‘Tis the season to be jolly
The extended Sydney Atlassian crew was out for Christmas celebrations at Bicentennial Park earlier this month. It was a scorcher of a day, but we still filled it with plenty of sports, presents, BBQs, and sugary goodness. See more photos from the Sydney Family and Friends Day. The SF crew headed to Yoshi’s for a […]
‘Extend and Customise’ – The Wiki Saga Concludes
The emotional roller coaster pulls into the station this week as our team of Confluence users completes the planning for their team offsite. But before the drama concludes, Todd solicits the help of a new character, Boots Admin, to help him pimp out his page of wiki text with a slick org chart embedded directly […]
Atlassian prepares to rock the socks off the JOLT Awards
Great news! Atlassian has once again been nominated for the JOLT Awards. This year, we’re in the running in the Security Tools category for Crowd and Testing Tools category for Clover. The JOLT Awards recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. The award ceremony will be held at SD West on March 11th. Both Crowd […]
Synchronize your Salesforce
How many hours a year do your developers and product managers spend replying to sales people’s queries about customer’s feature requests? At an average software company, these requests can whittle away multiple days of combined productivity each year and drive the people chasing down these details batty. If this is a problem that you want […]
Atlassian Webinar Roundup
With the New Year rapidly approaching, I wanted to give you a snapshot of past webinars, and upcoming ones before vacation time is in full swing. Past Webinars All webinars we host are recorded and subsequently posted to Atlassian TV. Please feel free to view any of the past events: 26 Aug 2008 – Dan […]
Atlassian Developer Tools get props from Java Posse at Devoxx
At last week’s Devoxx in Antwerp, Belgium, Atlassian’s Developer Tools were in full force throughout the event. The Java Posse gave Atlassian heaps of praise and the crowd gave a rousing ovation, showing the great level of respect our dev tools have within the Java community.
Confluence Makes RWW’s list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008
As part of it’s series of top products for 2008, ReadWriteWeb named Confluence to it’s list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products. We are honored to be part of this year’s list which includes the likes of Amazon, Google and SalesForce.com. As RWW says: It is time to celebrate the winners in this market, enterprise-focused […]
‘Discover and Subscribe’ – The suspense builds…
This week we present Discover and Subscribe, part two in our three-part Confluence video series. In this episode, we begin where Part 1 left off…our team of not-so-extraordinary individuals is finished creating the “Team Offsite” page and it’s now ready for prime-time. But how do they get the word out? How will other employees know […]
How OpenCloud uses Confluence for technical documentation
Atlassian Confluence customer, OpenCloud, have done some amazing work with Confluence. For example, check out their developer portal, which takes Confluence dashboards to a whole new level. They’re also using Confluence for writing and publishing their technical documentation. I got a great deal of satisfaction when I learned from Jon Hertzig of OpenCloud they were […]
Young at Heart – How to Be an Innovator for Life
Last week I listened to a great podcast titled Young at Heart: How to Be an Innovator for Life from the Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Series at Stanford. If you haven’t heard about the series, I highly recommend to check it out. They have great speakers on various topics mostly around entrepreneurship, startup experiences and more […]