Atlassian doc sprint delivers 30 tutorials for Confluence 4.3
The Atlassian technical writers and friends have just held our fourth doc sprint, and it was the biggest and best yet. We had sprinters sprinkled round the world. We worked on site in Sydney, San Francisco and Amsterdam. Remote sprinters joined us online via Hipchat and the wiki. We wrote words, we wrote code, we […]
Atlassian conservation volunteers strike back on Mars
Our usual tools are wikis, issue trackers and continuous integration servers… But today we wielded long-handled loppers, secateurs and saws. The last time we used a long-handled lopper, we saved the planet. This time, we’re out to save Mars! Ten Atlassians went on a bush regeneration exercise with Conservation Volunteers Australia and the National Parks […]
Join us in a Confluence developer doc sprint
The Atlassian technical writers invite you to one of our famous choc fests – uh, doc sprints! This time we’re targeting the Confluence developer documentation. Let’s build some simple but lustworthy Confluence add-ons, and write them up so that other people can follow in our footsteps. A doc sprint is an event where some seriously […]
Atlassian Foundation helps save the planet
It’s a little known fact that Atlassians have green blood. You could cut one to see, but that’s probably not a good idea. Especially if the Atlassian concerned is holding our weapon of choice, the long-handled lopper. A few days ago, a group of us went out to help Conservation Volunteers Australia save the planet. […]
New Jira 5.0 tutorials from the Atlassian doc sprint
The Atlassian technical writers and thirteen developers recently combined forces in a doc sprint. The aim? To develop plugin tutorials that will help people use the upcoming Jira 5.0 Java APIs. The result is eleven shiny new tutorials and plenty of updates to existing pages. The indomitable doc sprinters were based in Sydney, San Francisco and […]
How to edit the Atlassian developer documentation
The Atlassian Developers site has a shiny new look, improved tutorials and pretty pictures. Is that Confluence I see before me? Yes, and the shiny new look is thanks to the Zen Foundation theme. The Zen editing experience is a bit different to the standard Confluence themes. Here is a quick start guide. 1. Log […]
Jira 4 Essentials – a book by Patrick Li
I recently finished reading the book Jira 4 Essentials by Patrick Li. It is a very useful quick-start guide to Atlassian Jira for administrators. I think you will also find it interesting if you are a Jira user without administrative powers, because it shows you how to set up your own Jira site. You can […]
Practical Jira Administration – a book by Matt Doar
I’ve just finished reading Practical Jira Administration by Matt Doar. The book is a collection of best practices from a Jira expert. It’s as if Matt sits you down by the fire and says, "Let me tell you what really matters about Jira". It’s the birds and the bees talk, for Jira. Matt Doar is […]
Translating the documentation for Jira, Confluence and other Atlassian applications
At Atlassian, we’re spreading our wings into other countries. We recently launched Atlassian Translations where people can collaborate to translate the user interface for Jira, Confluence and other applications into the language of their choice. The new localised website pages are a great start to providing relevant content in people’s own languages. What about translations […]
Atlassian Foundation does bush regeneration with Conservation Volunteers Australia
This week sixteen doughty Atlassians joined Conservation Volunteers Australia (CVA) and Warringah Council in a war on weeds. We revisited the site of our previous battle. I have to admit to some trepidation when planning this second expedition. What if we got to the site and saw all our previous work undone? What if the […]
Technical Writing in a Wiki – Single Source Publishing
This post is the fifth in a series from Atlassian’s technical writing team about using a wiki for technical documentation. Last week Rosie Jameson wrote about managing documentation releases. In this post, I’ll cover single source publishing on a wiki. As technical writers, we always keep our readers’ and customers’ needs at the forefront of […]
Share your Jira or Confluence tips on Twitter and grab a badge for your blog
Do you have a hot tip about your Jira bug tracker? Maybe you just discovered something and thought: “Duh, I should have guessed that! Why didn’t anyone tell me?” “Wow, that’s so cool! How can I tell everyone about it?” Now you can tweet your Jira tips and see them popping up in the Jira […]
Crowd authentication for Apache and Subversion – oh so easy now
Hooking up Apache and Subversion with Crowd for authentication and authorisation just got much easier. Are you running Apache/Subversion on Debian? No worries, we have the package for you. We’ve got Red Hat Linux, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Ubuntu and Windows covered too Andrew Reid, developer of the Apache/Subversion connector for Crowd, has extensively reworked the installation […]
Playing with Firestarter, a portable Confluence wiki from Appfire
I’ve been playing with Appfire’s Firestarter, a portable wiki appliance. That’s Confluence on a stick. What’s more, you can sync your Firestarter Confluence with a server-based Confluence, and even sync one Firestarter Confluence with another. This will be great for people who want to work remotely or offline, and then update their corporate wiki when […]
Tweet your Confluence wiki tips – we'll publish them in our documentation
Do you have some cool hints about Confluence wiki that you’d like to share with the world? How about seeing your tips appear on a page in the Atlassian documentation? Just tweet with #ConfluenceTips. We’d love to see your tips about using Confluence. All those lesser-known goodies from the nooks and crannies of the wiki, […]
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