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How Stash Developers Avoid Branching from a Bad Commit
One of my colleagues recently blogged about how the Confluence team avoids creating feature branches from bad commits. This blog post describes how to take the same idea one step further. The Problem I hate it when I make a trivial change, something like: $ git checkout master Switch to branch ‘master’ $ git checkout […]
How to manage a product backlog with ease
Product owners have the challenging task of ingesting feedback from multiple sources, organizing it into a meaningful format, and communicating out to the product teams. Feedback is a critical part of the product life cycle. We can’t iterate to make our products better without it, as we talked about in our three-part series on collecting […]
Git-flow comes to Java
As a Java developer, I’m always trying to find ways to streamline all the mundane tasks that come along with development but aren’t necessarily part of the actual code I’m trying to write. Managing source control and performing releases are definitely on that list. I use Git as my DVCS of choice, and while it […]
How Confluence Developers Avoid Branching from a Bad Commit
The Stash team recently released the Stash-Bamboo plugin, which surfaces pass/fail results from Bamboo builds inside Stash. The main use case for the plugin is to let people reviewing a pull request see whether tests are passing on the development branch before they give the thumbs-up for merging it into master. Pretty cool. So I asked […]
How to Share Files with Your Team Using Confluence
Share files with your team using the File List Blueprint Too often files are trapped in shared network drives or email inboxes, making it impossible for everyone to have access to the most current version. We decided to tackle this problem with the File List Blueprint – which makes it easy to share and store […]
Git Titanium Armor: Recovering from Various Disasters
Git is an advanced tool. It features a philosophy that is dear to my heart: to treat developers as smart and responsible folks. This means that a lot of power is at your fingertips. The power to also shoot yourself in the foot – arguably with a titanium vest on – but shoot yourself nonetheless. […]
How to run effective meetings with Confluence
How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt ‘meeting dread’ because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don’t accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of […]
Jira Admins: where is your field?
Do you know about the Jira Admin Helper? If you’re a Jira administrator, hold on to your hat: we’re about to move your configuration tasks at warp speed! The Jira Admin Helper is a free, bundled plugin that answers questions like: Why isn’t my field showing up on view/edit/create screens? Why can/can’t a user see […]
Extending git
While Mercurial has a well defined (albeit internal) API that can be used to write extensions that extend the functionality of Mercurial, git’s extension model follows the Unix philosophy of composing small, simple programs to achieve a similar effect. What that means is that git “extensions” can be written in any language and by following […]
Announcing Jira Jr.: it’s fun-tastic!
Software is eating the world. And nobody’s hungrier, or youngrier, than our kids. The technology landscape is quickly being reshaped by code-writing hipsters barely out of college. Case in point: just last week, Yahoo! acquired Summly, a company whose CEO still has to go to prom. So it’s perplexing: even though entrepreneurs are getting younger, […]
Git submodules: core concept, workflows, and tips
[cta]Including submodules as part of your Git development allows you to include other projects in your codebase, keeping their history separate but synchronized with yours. It’s a convenient way to solve the vendor library and dependency problems. As usual with everything git, the approach is opinionated and encourages a bit of study before it can […]
Jira Query Language (JQL) recap
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Hey Everyone! In the month of February we did a series on JQL at atlassian.reaktivdev.com. It’s a quickstart guide to making the transition […]
3 tips for creating page templates in Confluence
One of the biggest time-saving tactics you can employ in your workplace is creating standardized content. Teams waste so much time every day creating documents from scratch or mindlessly scanning unstructured pages for the information they need. It’s time to stop reinventing the wheel. [cta] Here are three awesome features to use when creating page templates in Confluence […]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TestNG
Think back to your early 20’s. Remember going out on Halloween or New Year’s Eve? No sooner do you walk into a bar than someone in your group starts lobbying to go to some other bar. ‘Cuz it’s gonna be way better. (In your exasperation – you just ordered a drink for pete’s sake! – you vow that next […]
JQL: Using filters and subscriptions
If you find yourself searching for Jira issues weekly, daily, (or hourly!), you will benefit immensely from setting up filters, dashboards, and subscriptions to make your life even easier. Filters: Save your search Don’t perform a search over and over again: save it for easy access next time! Once you run your query in JQL […]
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