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Europe… here we come!
Say “G’Day” to our newest developers in our Eastern European office. It’s a bit early for a press release to announce the new office — we should probably wait for them to finish unpacking! — but we thought it was a good time to start spreading the news. Long story short, a team of developers […]
Cutting-Edge Plugin Released for Confluence Hosted
We’re pleased to announce that EditGrid has created a plugin of their online spreadsheet that is now available to Confluence Hosted and Confluence Enterprise Hosting customers. EditGrid’s online spreadsheet lives entirely in the web browser–no browser plugin or Flash required. It allows for real-time collaboration on spreadsheets in Confluence, ensuring that co-editors are always working […]
When I started out…
We had a recent visit from the National Computer Science School (http://www.ncss.edu.au/) where students experienced the software development environment first-hand. We made them some funky t-shirts and I was to believe that was the end of my responsibilities for the event. Our very own Chris Owen (Senior Confluence Developer) had other ideas! Chris asked if […]
The New Guy on Landing the Job
Hello, world! My name is Jeff Leyser, I’m the freshly minted Product Marketing Manager for Jira, and I’m just wrapping up my first week here at Atlassian. Over the next few weeks and months, I’m going to be blogging about what it’s like to be the New Guy. The first step to being the new […]
Top 7 Reasons to See Us at SDWest
7. You can say “G’Day” in your best Aussie accent to an Atlassian. 6. You will be mesmerised, perhaps even entranced, when you see Fisheye and Bamboo demoed on two 30″ Apple Cinema displays. 5. JOLT Award night… see if Atlassian Confluence, Crowd, Clover, and Fisheye walk away with the gold! 4. There’s always a […]
Atlassian Named Jolt Awards Finalist
Four of Atlassian’s products have been nominated as finalists for the 18th Annual JOLT Awards! The JOLT Awards recognizes the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. We’re honored to have made the cut again this year. Here’s the breakdown of Atlassian’s nominations: Fisheye, Change and Configuration Management Confluence, Collaboration Tools Crowd, Security Tools Clover, Testing Winners […]
Atlassian QA
Setting up a QA team For the last five months we have been interviewing people for the position on our shiny new QA team. A bit about our goals Creating a QA team is a part of our plan to: reduce the number of issues that slip out to our customers reduce the time/effort it […]
Why using a wiki instead of email or documents will multiply your collaboration effectiveness
John Tropia recently explained how wikis (along with blogs and social networks) enable better knowledge sharing. To set up the comparison, here’s how he described the struggle to share tacit knowledge using a traditional document management system: “Let’s not even talk about sharing personal information and thoughts (supposed tacit
How to build an Atlassian plugin
Over the past year (or more) we’ve been working to transition our internal development from Maven 1 to Maven 2. As you’ll know if you’ve kept an eye on Charles’ blog, it hasn’t been an entirely smooth process. But as we get deeper into it and slowly learn the zen of Maven, we’re seeing some […]
Jira Studio: Stream of Development Consciousness
I suspect it comes as no surprise to any developer if I say that “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com has become extremely popular (not to mention extremely valuable!) over the last year. The feature on Facebook that has most intrigued me is the activity feed. For those that don’t know, Facebook’s feed shows you activity (any form of action […]
What’s Your Pattern? – New video on growth of Wikipatterns.com
Just published What’s Your Pattern?, a retrospective on the growth of Wikipatterns.com over the past 10 months, and a call to action for wiki users to continue building it into the best possible source of ideas and strategies for growing wiki use. Jon and I decided to create this video as our project for ShipIt […]
Top 3 Reasons to Start Your Wiki in 2008
The reasons The best damn enterprise wiki is served up your way… shared hosting, dedicated hosting, or the most popular behind-the-firewall edition Wikipatterns.com is a free resource to help you make it successful Wikipatterns the book has been published! The book For months, Stewart — who sits across from me in the office — toiled […]
SF Holiday Party
The San Francisco crew chose for their holiday event a night of great food and jazz at the newly opened Yoshi’s on Fillmore in San Francisco. With the mezzanine all to ourselves, we celebrated in comfortable lounge chairs and sofas with plenty of drinks, Japanese food and awesome company! The jazz concert topped off the […]
Design the next Atlassian t-shirt and win an iPhone!
We’re looking for a new and cool Atlassian t-shirt, and we want you to design it! Until February 28th, design a t-shirt or slogan for Atlassian, upload it to Confluence, and then call all your friends and have them vote for it. The selected winner has the choice of either an 8GB iPhone or a […]
My week @ Javapolis
What a week! Javapolis was my first “real” conference and it was certainly an experience. Four days, 3300 attendees and 250 Atlassian t-shirts given away. The days were long and usually started with us setting up around 8 in the morning and on a few nights, we were still giving demos at 8 at night! […]