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Jason Fried: If you want success, follow the chefs
Jason Fried of 37signals spoke last Friday at SXSW Interactive about the lessons he’s learned from building the successful, Chicago-based software company. All 14 lessons are priceless, but #9 stands out the most for me: Lesson 9: Follow the Chefs Jason called chefs the smartest business professionals. He explained this is because they are aware […]
Announcing Codegeist III: Be The Code You Seek
Coders, start your development engines! It’s time for Codegeist III, the 2008 edition of the Atlassian plugin competition. Once again, the contest is bigger and badder than last year: we’re offering $30,000 in cash prizes, gobs of software from some of our favourite Java tool-smiths, and tickets to a few of the best developer conferences […]
A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities
Just found this excellent paper by Laurence Parry from the 2006 Wikimania conference. It focuses on starting and building a community wiki, and a lot of his ideas, tips, and advice also apply to wiki use in organizations: …why would you want to build such a wiki in the first place, and why would such […]
Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment
I’m happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public “20% time” trial at Atlassian. If you’ve ever wondered how Google’s famed 20% time works in reality, we’ll be your guinea pigs and blogging the results for everyone to see. Why do 20% time? Atlassian has a proud tradition of innovation. We’ve always strived have […]
Conferences That Don't Suck and You
Atlassian and NFJS activate a fluff-free titillating partnership of unsuck for developers developers developers developers.
Wikis at the White House
In a recent Washington Post article, Stephen Barr explores how the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is using a wiki to track earmarks in the federal budget. Earmarking is a process by which members of Congress designate money for specific projects, often in their home states or congressional districts. With the wiki, […]
Crowd 1.3 Solves Your Identity Crisis
The Atlassian Crowd team is delighted to present Crowd 1.3. This release includes innovative solutions for LDAP group administration, cross-directory user imports and a streamlined management interface. Crowd 1.3 features delegated authentication, giving users greater control of LDAP group administration, while allowing users to be managed in Crowd. This means local systems administrators can bypass […]
Maven in our development process. Part 4. Remaining issues
So far we have covered all the work we have done setting up Maven: The requirements for our Maven process. The infrastructure we have set up. The project configuration details. As I went along, I also described some of the reasons for each part and some benefits. However, all of the work above does not […]
Atlassian Wins Four Jolt Awards!
We’re happy to announce that Atlassian took home a whopping four Jolt awards on March 5th at SD West with Fisheye and Clover receiving the top prizing! Here’s the awards breakdown: Change and Configuration Management Jolt Winner: Fisheye Testing Tools Jolt Winner: Clover Collaboration Tools Productivity Winner: Confluence Security Tools Productivity Winner: Crowd The Jolt […]
Three’s a Crowd – securing a Grails application with Acegi and Crowd
One of the cool things about working for Internal Systems is the opportunity to work on new systems. My most recent project is the development of my ShipIt VII project into a fully-fledged application. Where my ShipIt VII project was a standard Java web application, I’m doing the real version using Grails with Acegi. However, […]
Vote for Your Favorite Atlassian T-Shirt Design!
We’d like to thank everyone for submitting their designs for the next great Atlassian t-shirt! We received over 80 entries, and from those, have chosen the top 14 for you to vote on. Check out our voting page to cast your vote and help us choose the next cool Atlassian T-Shirt! Voting runs until March […]
Four new capabilities for the Atlassian Plugin Repository
We’ve recently added four new features to the Atlassian Plugin Repository that plugin developers should want to know about: Download Tracking For the last few months, we’ve been tracking the number of individual plugin downloads through the Plugin Repository. You can now display a table or graph of a plugin’s downloads like this: You can […]
A New Milestone — 10,000 Customers and Counting!
Atlassian now has over 10,000 customers! Not only is this a pretty cool milestone to pass, but it happened on February 16th, almost to the day of Atlassian’s sixth birthday. We’ve come a long way over the past six years, from a couple of developers furiously developing Jira on their own, to now offering a […]
Communicating Across Products and Oceans
Dipping into the Stream You may already know about the Activity Stream feature that will be part of Jira Studio. The idea is that all of the activity on a project, across its issues, wiki content, source commits and code reviews, can be viewed in a continuous, integrated timeline. We recently rolled the feature out […]
Psychedellic Bugs Tracked by Jira
This has got to be the most unique gift I’ve gotten from someone I worked with… maybe the most unique gift ever?! Kathy G. was a customer of Atlassian’s when she worked at a large company in Virginia. She was laid off last year along with many other employees as their company relocates their operations […]