Inside Atlassian: 10 tips for distributed development teams
I often get asked about how we use our own tools for software development here at Atlassian. Since it is...
Nick Pellow
ShipIt 17 Finalists
Ian Grunnert and Gilmore Davidson took out first place in Atlassian FedEx 17 by adding Video Support to Atlassian's latest product offering, <a href="http://atlassian.com/bonfire">Bonfire</a>.
Colour your Console (now in Java)
Most of us have seen how Rails uses colour in its server log, to highlight important lines or even words...
Express Yourself with Clover EL
A little known – but very powerful feature of Clover is its built-in Expression Language. The Expression Language allows developers...
40 to 7: How We Sped Up Confluence's Build by a Factor of 5
Don't you hate committing code and then waiting hours to find out you broke the build? Even worse is when other people commit code at a similar time to you, and you get dragged...
Y2K9 – How Code Coverage Could Have Saved the Zune
Via <a href="http://twitter.com/dalmaer/status/1091929395">Twitter</a> on the weekend I came across this <a href="http://pastie.org/349916">pastie</a> (see lines 259-274), supposedly containing the code for the Real-Time-Clock running on the 30GB Zune. A Code Coverage tool could have detected this...
Code Coverage as a "Static Debugger"
Viewing code coverage often provides enough insight into the cause of a failing test and is a cheap alternative to adding printlns or firing up the debugger.
skitchslapped
(v) <strong>skitchslap</strong>: the act of denigrating something by annotating a screenshot or image of it, using skitch.
My tests touched what?!
<blockquote>Before jumping out of a plane, it's good to know how well your parachute is packed.</blockquote>