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Jira Mate brings Jira to your iPhone
Last week, in talking about my love affair with the iPhone, I briefly mentioned Jira Mate, an interface for Jira that runs on the iPhone. I’ve been using Jira Mate for a couple of weeks now, and it’s great. It’s one of those applications that just works. It sets out to do a useful but […]
Clover 2.4 released, now test smarter with Test Optimization
New Clover 2.4 release introduces Test Optimization to the essential Java code coverage tool. Automatically streamline your builds and automated testing to get the most from the tests that matter without waiting for those that don’t. Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com/clover.
Melbourne Cup at MezzaLuna
Melbourne Cup Lunch is a long standing tradition at Atlassian, and this year it rolled around again to much cheering, champagne sipping and fine millinery. Sydney Atlassians headed out to MezzaLuna at Potts Point to enjoy the company of their workmates, the great city views and a fabulous lunch. This year we had so many […]
Plugin of the Month with Andreas Meingast, netoCiety
Please join us on Weds, November 19th for our fourth installment of the Plugin of the Month webinar series with Andreas Meingast of netoCiety. Using a mashup of the Reporting Plugin, Rating Plugin, Autopage Macro, Scaffolding Plugin, Advanced Search, and Reporting plugin, plus their own code juice, netoCiety has created a powerful new social networking […]
Fan the Flames with Confluence Blogs
Thomas Edison once said, “Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” At the Defrag conference this week, Professor William Duggan of the Columbia Business School focused on that very important one percent. Where do creative ideas come? Duggan suggests that the great creative sparks in human achievement were the product of one individual […]
Stop testing so much!
Automated testing is a great way of maintaining quality on a software project, but often teams find themselves with long-running suites of tests that become a time killer in the iterative development process. Clover’s new test optimization feature can dramatically reduce build times by selectively running only the tests relevant to a particular change. This means the test suite can be run locally prior to a commit. It also means CI server throughput is greatly improved, both of which mean faster feedback to development teams. The Test optimization integrates with your existing Ant or Maven2 build environment.
Come with me a on Magic Quadrant Ride
Well, you don’t know what we can find Why don’t you come with me little girl On a magic carpet ride OK, ok, maybe it’s just wrong to quote Steppenwolf’s Magic Carpet Ride for a blog post about Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, but it just felt right on a jubilant Election Day in the US. Gartner’s […]
Killer Jira Client Video by Igor Sereda
Igor Sereda, founder and software engineer of ALM Works, gave a killer presentation on Jira Client for our Plugin of the Month webinar series. Based out of St. Petersburg, Russia, Igor created Jira Client to be a desktop client for Jira. It integrates seamlessly with existing Jira installations and brings more searching power and interactivity […]
CQUniversity’s Jira Adoption Story
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. I love customer stories! Thanks to Twitter, I found Luke Daley at CQUniversity in Queensland, Australia. Luke professed his Jira love in a Tweet, and I asked him to expand in email: I work in a combined team of Database Administrators and System Administrators as part […]
Trick or Treat
Fancy your Jira support issues being solved by Morpheus? How about your next office event being planned by Sarah Palin? SF halls were filled with the weird and wonderful – there was a zombie princess and Harry Potter, not to mention Elton John’s pimped-out cousin who stole Christmas. I mentioned it was Halloween right?
Software artists need a good character palette
As software engineers writing internationalised applications it’s very useful to have quick access to vital information about Unicode characters such as their names, glyphs in various typefaces and how they are encoded under various schemes. Mac OS X has a very nice character palette that seems to be designed with us developer types in mind.
Ruby and Bamboo Unite
Did you know that Ruby developers can use Bamboo for continuous integration? I called Crossroads to gauge their experiences on moving to Bamboo 2.1. They kick off builds with each commit, have 15 active projects and nearly 100 developers using Bamboo, but I was most fascinated that they are a Ruby shop. Besides Ant & […]
The iPhone, Jira & Transformation
When Apple released the iPhone last year, I scoffed. Windows Mobile on my Samsung Blackjack had it’s problems, but I was on the 3G Network — no fancy UI was going to get me to go back to poky old EDGE! Then, when iPhones started to show up here in the office, I drooled, but […]
How we communicate, part 2 of 2… almost 12 months later
Nearly one year ago I wrote part I of this post on how we (Atlassian) communicate. Usually when one indicates that he’s writing a 2-part series or even 10-part series, it means that he’s going to write more than once. Like, two or ten times. But, I must hang my head in shame, because I […]
Cobetura Plugin, NAnt Builder, and more Plugins
Ross Rowe has developed over half a dozen plugins for Atlassian products, including several for Bamboo, such as the Cobetura Plugin and NAnt Builder Plugin. That’s fine, you say, but how can you learn more? Or better yet, how can you start to make your own plugins? Start by tuning into the webinar we did […]