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AppLinks connects your Atlassian applications
A few months ago we announced the availability of Jira Studio, which combines Jira, Confluence, Subversion, Fisheye, and Crucible in a single integrated hosted suite. A big part of what makes Jira Studio work is Atlassian’s AppLinks, a series of plugins which tie the applications together and allow for a number of new integration points. […]
New Confluence Shizzle – 2.9, Office and SharePoint Connectors
Today’s an auspicious day for Confluence fans – Confluence 2.9 is out in the wild, with a gaggle of new features, 140 resolved issues and two wickedly cool plug-ins: the Office Connector, which lets users edit Confluence pages with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice clients (free for all customers), and the SharePoint Connector, which allows SharePoint […]
Plugins 2.0: a heads-up
Confluence third-party developers are likely to start running into mentions of “Plugins 2.0” in existing code and in future milestone releases. As such, I thought it might be a good idea to give you a quick heads-up on what is happening in Atlassian HQ, and how this is going to affect plugin authors.
Bamboo + Jira, when builds meet issues.
If you are anything like us with your development processes, then you would probably track all your development work – be they bugs, improvements, or features – in an issue tracker like Jira. You would also use a CI tool too, like Bamboo, to run builds constantly to make sure that your code base remains […]
Plugins Galore with Dan Hardiker
Mark your calendar and please join us on August 26, 2008 when we have a conversation with plugin developer, Dan Hardiker of Adaptavist. UPDATE: This video was recorded in September 2008 and can be viewed here. Having committed over 25 free plugins*, Dan is one of the most prolific plugin developers in the Atlassian community. […]
Atlassian User Group Hits Sydney HQ
While the Atlassian User Groups have been popping up all around the globe, here at Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney we have yet to host an AUG. That is until now. In a little over a month, in time for a much awaited southern hemisphere springtime, Atlassian’s Sydney offices will host the inaugural Sydney Atlassian User […]
5 Differences Between Wikipedia and Enterprise Wikis
Enterprise wikis and Internet wikis (of which Wikipedia and Wikitravel are examples) provide the same basic function – the ability to edit content in a web browser – but they differ in several significant ways: 1. Spaces Internet wikis often have all content housed in one “place,” so that any user can see the entirety […]
Bamboo Has Serious (Jira) Issues
At OSCON a couple weeks ago, I started a conversation with one attendee about continuous integration. It was a practice he wasn’t that familiar with. He knew the names of some open source CI servers, but hadn’t heard of Bamboo, our CI build server. Another guy at the table overheard the conversation and said, “Isn’t […]
Sydney End of Financial Year Party
Roll Up, Roll Up, The Atlassian Brothers Greatest Show on Earth is in town! Come witness the antics of the Sydney Atlassianites as they exhibit their amazing balancing, climbing, and falling skills. See more death-defying photos.
Magic Trick In Java
After reading a blog post about some of the quirks of the Java compiler and JVM, I thought I’d perform a magic trick for my colleagues to see how familiar they were with the same quirks.
See Jira in action at Agile 2008
At Agile 2008, Atlassian partner, Pyxis Technologies will be demoing GreenHopper, GreenPepper, Jira and Confluence. The new release of GreenHopper 3.0 has many new and improved features including “Quick Card Creation”. Stop by booth 824 for a demo. On Wednesday, Pyxis will sponsor a Texas Hold’em poker tournament! If you are lucky, you might win […]
Balsamiq Mockups brings paper prototyping to Confluence and Jira
Laura blogged about Balsamiq on the News Blog, but this is just too cool not to share here on Dev Blog. New Atlassian partner, Balsamiq, has released an amazing new tool called Mockups: it’s a flash-based drawing tool that is built specifically for designing software GUIs. Lots of designers preach the value of designing paper […]
Code Coverage as a "Static Debugger"
Viewing code coverage often provides enough insight into the cause of a failing test and is a cheap alternative to adding printlns or firing up the debugger.
Atlassian Wins 2008 SDTimes 100
Woohoo!. It’s 2006 all over again. Sort of. Atlassian was once again named to the prestigious SDTimes 100 list, which recognizes those companies, organizations and individuals that most broadly ‘set the agenda’ in the software industry. Atlassian won in the Application Lifecycle Management category which recognized solutions that supported the spectrum of collaboration workflow from […]
Updates to Jira Studio
A few days ago, we rolled out a significant update to our hosted development tool, Jira Studio. First, we’ve upgrade Jira Studio to Confluence 2.8. Laura posted all the details about 2.8 earlier, but in brief, Confluence 2.8 features an updated user interface focused on making our Wiki easier to use (and look at), better […]