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Atlassian’s newsletter – geeky, informative & hip
Geeky: entries written by our developers that discuss problems and solutions encountered while coding Informative: tips and updates about Atlassian products, as well as plugin competitions, book reviews, user groups, and LOTS more Hip: goes without saying anything seeing it’s from Atlassian That’s why you might be swayed to subscribe to the monthly Atlassian newsletter. […]
Mike and Scott make ‘Young Guns’ List
We’re proud of our founders and wanted to share the news… Mike and Scott are part of Australian Anthill’s Top 30 Entrepreneurs under 30 list. Here’s how Anthill’s describes the Top 30 entrepreneurs: These ‘young guns’ are switched-on, cashed-up and fearless. And if you haven’t already figured this one out, they also represent the future […]
Global Search in Jira Studio
Jira Studio is our latest hosted offering, which combines Jira, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible and SVN via a number of plugins to provide a seamless development environment to the end user. Search is an area where the integration between products has been lacking so far. Each application provides powerful search mechanisms, however there was no global […]
Story Cards
Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this “agile” stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them … right.
User Groups coming up in Boston and Paris
Atlassian is holding two more user groups in the next few weeks. Next week, on Thursday June 12th, we’ll be holding a Atlassian User Group in Boston, at the Westin Waltham hotel from 2:00pm until 7:00pm. This event is extra special because I, your friendly neighborhood Developer Relations guy, will be in attendance. Then on […]
First-ever Wikipatterns.com User Survey: Have Your Say!
If you’re a registered member of Wikipatterns.com, you should have received an email in the last 24 hours regarding the first-ever Wikipatterns.com user survey. Laurence Lock Lee, James Matheson, and I co-developed the survey to study the knowledge retrieval, sharing, and interaction patterns within the Wikipatterns.com community, and your perceived value from your use of […]
Codegiest III is complete!
I’m a little behind mentioning this, but Codegeist III is officially over! There was a burst of activity this year, bringing in fifty-three entries from forty-three different authors. There are some very ambitious entries as well, and some that I hope we will all continue to build on in the months to come. We received […]
The Simpleton Pattern
If you do your own research you may be led to believe that Simpleton is an anti-pattern. It has also been noted that Simpleton is best suited to the BBM architectural style. Some engineers at Atlassian maintain that the Simpleton characterises properties of developers themselves rather than of the software.
Catapult
Lately I’ve been catching the train home a lot, and I was getting sick of walking to the station because I think it’s too far away. I’ve learnt of a shortcut which I’ve found to be much faster (about 5 minutes) as it cuts out on traffic lights and the distance you have to travel. […]
Atlassian User Groups in Boston and Paris this June
We’re holding Atlassian User Groups in Boston and Paris this June and we want to see you there! User groups provide a unique opportunity to meet with Atlassian staff and developers, hear customer presentations, have the chance to learn from your peers and get some of those burning questions answered. Highlights include: Presentations by Atlassian […]
Announcing the Atlassian T-Shirt Competition Winner…
Congratulations to Sherif Mansour for submitting the winning t-shirt! As winner, Sherif will be receiving an iPhone or iPod Touch– his choice. Thanks to everyone who submitted! The finalists will all be receiving shwanky Atlassian t-shirts for being such good sports, submitting some rad designs and putting up with us taking our sweet time to […]
The 20% Friday Five
Ten weeks into Atlassian’s experiment with twenty percent time, I asked the participating developers for some opinions, ideas and feedback.
Crowd 1.4 Brings Power to the People
The Atlassian Crowd team is proud to release Crowd 1.4! Highlights of this release include nested groups, a self-service console, a plugin framework that allows developers to write their own plugins for Crowd and lots and lots of other goodies that help ease the administrators’ role and bring back “power to the people” 😀 New […]
San Francisco New Office
After months of banging, pounding, and much anticipation, the doors to our new office in San Francisco finally opened in May. The new office, located just one floor down from our previous one, is much more spacious, brighter, and can hold our ever-expanding team. Plans began in January and the awaited construction started in February. […]
Confluence has a Selenium Build!
Last week, Matt Ryall and I have been trying to get a Selenium build up to test Confluence’s Javascript features, especially the new drop down menus and page ordering tree. It wasn’t easy, but I personally think it is definitely worth having these tests. Below is a summary of the steps and problems we encountered […]