Keep the byte
Keep the byte author Cédric offers this Piece of advice: Scrap your CMS portfolio and use an Enterprise Wiki instead. I don’t have the time and resources to do it – therefore here’s the business ideal for free (for any European county): Call up Atlassian and make a deal to contribute the internationalised Confluence version […]
An Atypical Life
Excerpted from i am not an artist “The effort required to alter some software behaviour is often disproportionate to the gains to be realized from the work. But to actively reject suggestions from customers for convenience, or because “you can get away with it
What’s a wiki?
From GlobeandMail.com: But now the good news. Not all wikis suck. Our experience with so many bad programs finally enabled us to find wiki software we like. Confluence, a commercial product from Australia, addressed 90 per cent of our wish list. And in the last few months wiki acceptance in our company has increased tenfold […]
Atlassian Wins SD Times 100 Award
Atlassian has won the 2006 SD Times award! The award is in the Software Configuration Management and Change Management category, but the write up was more general. The SD Times award citation stated, “With 3,100 user organizations and a bunch of industry awards in its pocket, this company from Down Under is hopping” (since the […]
Emptiness Blog
If you haven’t tried it, I would suggest getting a Personal Server license of Confluence. Getting it running on my laptop took some research, but now I spend most of my computer time working on my “Life
Daemonite
FarCry WIKI is a community effort to generate user and developer documentation for the FarCry CMS from Daemon. On the Daemon blog entry Wiki’s work… sometimes, they praised Confluence (thank you), but noted some of the challenges of creating information heirarchies. But here’s the thing; we’re stuck with a great open source solution, with not […]
Aussie Entrepreneurs of the Year
And now for something completely different. We got word from Ernst & Young that Atlassian co-founders, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, made the finalist list of Ernst & Young’s 2006 Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) award. The EOY press guidelines and official facts and figures behind the awards stated that past winners include Jeff Bezos, […]
breddy.net
The Agile Project/Issue Management blog by Chris gives Jira a thumbs up as a “fantastic traditional bug tracker,” but it apparently falls short for agile development. There are folks who use Jira for agile development and a number of resources you (and others) might want to take a look at. Read how we use Jira […]
CSUC: Pragmatic Issue Tracking
Pat has put together a draft of Pragmatic Issue Tracking with Jira for the CSU Chico instance of Jira. Great resource for other Jira newbies! Thanks!
Musings of a Software Development Manager
One of the paragraphs in Climbing the Hill of Higher Quality Software Development says After instituting Confluence as our wiki solution we’re seeing a much larger amount of content go up per day at least 5-10 new pages. We also maxed out our 25 named users license as well today. This was a follow up […]
Jira for Indispensable Customer Relations
One of the great things about talking with customers is hearing how they are using our products in ways they hadn’t originally anticipated. Take Mazeppa, one of Norway’s leading consultancies for ERP systems and telecom solutions to many of the country’s largest industrial companies. Mazeppa started using Jira for bug tracking but discovered it could […]
Confluence 2.2 Announcement in Stereo
Prefer Confluence announcements read to you? Then head on over to Using Wiki in Education, a blog that discusses, well, wikis in education, and hear a short podcast about the new 2.2 release of Confluence. Actually, I can’t say enough about this blog which features some really great presentations created by Carbonmade. Another interesting nugget […]
Confluence 2.2 Gets Personal
Confluence 2.2, now available, introduces some outstanding new features for wiki users such as personal spaces, support for internationalisation, CAPTCHA spam protection, new extension points for plugin developers, a simple LDAP configuration syntax, and more.
Confluence Receives Well-Connected Award
A few weeks ago, we blogged about Network Computing after they selected Confluence as the Editor’s Choice in a review of commerical wikis. Well, Network Computing sent us an email the other day saying that not only had they picked Confluence in their review of wikis, but also selected it for their annual Well-Connected Awards! […]
Blinking VCR
Dmitry created a blog earlier this month entitled Wiki for Fun and Profit that was not only a nice endorsement for Confluence, but also an insightful piece about the use of wikis in organisations. Not only is there some confusion about the use of wikis for enterprise collaboration, but also there’s the question of where […]
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