Presenting the Future Macro
I am pleased to announce that the Confluence Future Macro has been released as an open source plugin on the Atlassian Labs site.
Software artists need a good character palette
As software engineers writing internationalised applications it’s very useful to have quick access to vital information about Unicode characters such as their names, glyphs in various typefaces and how they are encoded under various schemes. Mac OS X has a very nice character palette that seems to be designed with us developer types in mind.
The Monthly Code Smell – Issue 1
Code reviews are great because not only can they prevent defects from shipping to customers, they are also a great learning tool for both author and reviewer. But why should the learning stop there, trapped in an obscure Crucible review or in a conversation that is quickly receding into the thick fog of time past?
"cache-control: no-store" considered harmful
If your browsing habits are anything like mine you may have realised, when using Confluence 2.7, that the back and forward controls on your browser seem to be much faster when traversing wiki pages.
Data URLs
Sometimes you like to think that you pretty much know everything there is to know about URIs and web browsers. I learned something today that I had absolutely no idea about before. The magic data URL protocol. It’s defined in RFC2397 as a way to include immediate data in a URL. For example the following […]
A little more context with your logs sir?
Anyone who has ever had to look at logs from a Confluence instance knows that they are pretty verbose. Yet at times we still wish there was a little bit more information in them, particularly regarding the nature of the web request in which the log message was generated. CONF-7878 was raised by a user […]
Get your Wiiki on
It was with great trepidation that I directed the Nintendo Wii’s new web browser to the Atlassian extranet’s Confluence instance. Surely this was as foreign an environment that Confluence was going to be displayed in as ever. Somewhat surprisingly, everything worked fine and it would appear that you can now get your wiki fix from […]
Taming wild classpaths
One of the more frustrating things to diagnose when supporting our products are classpath issues. Help is now here.
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