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Plugin loading strategies in Confluence
What’s a “static” plugin, as seen in the Plugin Repository in Confluence? What are the ways plugins can be upgraded? For the answers to these and many of life’s other important questions, see our recently-created documentation: Plugin loading strategies in Confluence.
Interview with an Atlassian Nerdherder
Company culture and transparency are two important aspects of Atlassian. That’s why we’d like to introduce you to various staff members though the Inside Atlassian Minds series. In this interview, let me introduce you to Brendan Humphreys. Brendan came on board the development team when Atlassian and Cenqua joined forces last year. He focuses on […]
My people are spending time on f**cking what?!
I must admit that while Charles was very excited to hear the announcement of the 20% time trial at Atlassian, I received it with mixed feelings. The first thought that popped into my head was that we are giving people one day a week to slack off. Hence, the features that we think will benefit […]
Bamboo 2.0: Continuous Integration on Steroids
We’re happy to announce the release of Bamboo 2.0, the latest version of our continuous integration server! This release introduces the ability to run distributed builds. You will find this particularly useful if you need to run your builds in different geographic locations, or on different platforms. Simply install the new Bamboo Agent on your […]
The 20:80 Rule
This is a guest blog by Ken Hudson, author of the forthcoming book The Idea Accelerator—How to solve problems faster using Speed Thinking. The 20:80 Rule by Ken Hudson This is a blog about the 20:80 rule. Yes, you have read this correctly. This is not the famous Pareto’s Principle which states that 80% of […]
Bay Area Atlassian User Group on May 1st!
We’re happy to announce that the first in our series of Atlassian User Groups will be held in the San Francisco Bay Area at Stanford University on Thursday, May 1st, 2008! This user group will focus largely on Jira and Atlassian’s development tools. Here’s a closer look at the speaking lineup: Atlassian News and Update […]
Codegeist III: even more prizes!
Codegeist III just got better: we’ve added three new software license prizes to the contest. Many of the plugins for Atlassian products are free and open source, but some of them cost actual money. And since we’re giving away licenses of Jira and Confluence, I thought we might want to offer some of these plugins […]
4 Challenges to Wiki Adoption in Organizations: #3 Experience Outside Drives Adoption Inside
Sandy Kemsley’s third challenge to social media/enterprise 2.0 adoption in organizations: Having people immerse themselves in the creation and/or consumption of blogs and wikis in the wild is essential to having them understand why this is important within their company. This is the key difference between the new generation of tools like blogs & wikis, […]
4 Challenges to Wiki Adoption in Organizations: #2 Odd-Sounding Names
The second challenge to social media/enterprise 2.0 adoption that Sandy Kemsley cites has to do with the names of these tools, and the notion that we: …feel a bit silly stating that we blog (as opposed to maintaining a reverse chronological online journal), or use a wiki (as opposed to a collaborative editing workspace). Seriously […]
Interview: Inside A Wiki Evangelist’s Mind
Who makes up the Atlassian staff? You’ve already met Donna, our support diva. Now meet Stewart, our Wiki Evangelist. Here’s a snippet from the interview: Your Wikipatterns book is hot-off-the-press. Besides being your baby, why is it special? It’s a practical how-to guide for change management. That’s the most critical part of wiki adoption — […]
Beware of Hash Cookies
During my latest stint as the Jira Developer on Support, I came across an issue where a customer reported that the Remember Me functionality of Jira wasn’t working – but only for some users. In his instance, he had two users: wmlalai and lagonil – for now, let’s call them B1 and B2. For B1, […]
Atlassian Introduces the Next Generation Issue Tracker — Jira Solver
We’re happy to announce the release of our latest and most anticipated new Jira plugin — Jira Solver. Using sophisticated code-inspection tools acquired from Cenqua, fourier analysis, latent semantic mapping and advanced AJAX integration, Jira Solver takes your issues one step further, and resolves them. Quickly, quietly, and with no need for programmer intervention. Features […]
How Technical Writers Use Confluence and DITA XML
Anne Gentle writes about a presentation on a customer and documentation wiki sourced with DITA topics by Lisa Dyer of Lombardi Software at the February Central Texas DITA User Group meeting. Lisa’s presentation explores how the company is using DITA and a wiki as the framework for collaborative information development, both internally and with customers […]
Hammering Crowd
There have been a few customers wondering how Crowd scales (outside of it’s integration with Jira/Confluence). Unfortunately, the answers we could think of ranged from “..yes” to “nfi” – so we decided to take a look at load testing Crowd. Since Crowd offers a bunch of connection points for various applications, directories and databases, it’s […]
How do you use a wiki? Poll results
On Monday, I posted a reader poll over on Grow Your Wiki asking how people use wikis in organizations. As of last night, 127 people responded, and here’s what they had to say: There were three respondents who chose “Other”, and here are their specific responses: Managing classroom information, garbage trash, and audits. Now, I […]