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Atlassian Foundation raises $US191k for charity in one month
That’s right. Atlassians are a generous bunch, digging deep and donating almost $200,000 to their favourite charities in just one month. So how did it happen? Well, we like to call it “Double Donation Matching in May” – for every $1 Atlassians donated, the Atlassian Foundation double matched it. The result: Double Happiness. Here’s the equation: […]
Linking your Stash Git repositories to Crucible for code reviews
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. A couple months ago we released Stash, our new Git repository hosting solution behind the firewall. Stash is a great solution for repository hosting that you can couple to Crucible to perform code reviews on your changesets. This blog post will take you through the […]
How Many Build Agents Does My Project Need? (a.k.a. “The $16,000 Question”)
<sirMixALotMoment> I like big builds and I cannot lie. But you other builders can’t deny when a curl comes in with an itty-bitty trace* and dependencies out of place your build’s hung! </sirMixALotMoment> I like big builds even better when they’re running efficiently and giving the team fast feedback on changes. Lately I’ve been thinking […]
Case Study: Why did SAFMT Go Jira?
Nonprofit organizations aim to put as much of every dollar possible into their beneficiaries. Implementing Jira has enabled the Student Assistance Foundation to do better development work with less staff, making developers happy and, more importantly, saving operational costs to benefit students. Ultimately, the fact that Jira allows SAF to work smarter means more Montana […]
Converting Readers into Users (3 of 3)
Recently, the developer relations team redesigned the tutorial that introduces users to the Atlassian SDK. Our goal was to make users successful with the tutorial. We defined success as more users completing the tutorial. We used a Google Analytics URL funnel goal to measure our success. Traffic through the original and then the redesigned tutorials […]
Meet the New & Improved Bamboo OnDemand!
If you’re a Bamboo OnDemand subscriber, you could be forgiven for feeling a stab of jealousy every time a batch of new kick-ass features comes out for the on-premises Bamboo offering. “When, oh when, will it be my turn?”, you pined. Well, if you logged into your Bamboo OnDemand instance this morning, you already know that the […]
Origami Charlie
Coding apathy is something that has hit many developers at some point in time. You have so many ideas running through your head, but the last thing you want to do is sit down to code. The best solution is to take a complete break and focus on something non-technical. After my own recent bout […]
Drag-and-Drop Editing for Images and Macros – Coming in Confluence 4.3
Confluence 4.3 has been released. Learn more! You may have read the title of this blog post, and thought one of two things: 1. ‘What the heck is ‘Drag-and-Drop and how can I use it?’ It’s quite simple really, drag-and-drop makes it incredibly easy to take the files crowding your desktop, or documents trapped on […]
Making the Switch to DVCS: The Fisheye Teams move from Subversion to DVCS
The Tool is the Easy Part – What about the Processes? The Fisheye team was the first team at Atlassian to make the switch to DVCS, and while some Atlassians had previous DVCS (distributed version control) experience, quite a few had not yet used it in the workplace with a medium-size team of developers before. We looked for […]
Pipe User Feedback Straight To Developers
Listening to your customers, testers, and peers can make the difference between shipping the next killer release or shipping a dud. The Issue Collector in Jira 5.1+ brings developers closer to end user feedback. Getting the details right is the difference between something that delights, and something customers tolerate. – Jeff Atwood The Jira Issue […]
(Guest Blog) Are There Clouds Hanging Over Your Enterprise?
This is a guest blog post from Tim Madewell, SVP of Services at Innotas, a sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2012. Here at Innotas, we have spoken to a number of customers and prospect who have mentioned having a corporate or IT-driven “cloud initiative.” Upon hearing this, we’ve reflected on the rapid change of cloud solutions from the […]
Share Your Evernotes in Confluence with Stiltsoft’s Evernote Plugin
This is a guest post by Maxim Kuzmich, the co-founder of StiltSoft, a small team of “hackers” and fans of products by Atlassian. StiltSoft develops the Talk and InPlace Editor add-ons for Confluence. Get your Evernotes into Confluence Modern business requires you to access information and generate new ideas from anywhere – nearby cafes, while traveling, or even while in a […]
Atlassian plugin training and more at AtlasCamp 2012
Calling all developers! It’s time to brush off those cowboy boots and head on down to AtlasCamp 2012, our annual developer conference. Come connect with Atlassian devs, learn about the newest additions to the Atlassian Marketplace, and perfect your plugin and macro development skills, all with a view of the beautiful California coast. New this […]
GreenHopper Usage Survey Results, June 2012
The @GreenHopperTeam surveyed our customers in June to learn more about how teams are using the product today. We’ve done this in the past and will do it again in the future as it is a great way to see how teams and organisations evolve over time. We use this information to inform our roadmap, so thank […]
Try Jira 5.1 FREE this week in Atlassian University
Atlassian University videos and step-by-step interactive tutorials will get your team up to speed on Jira, fast. FREE this week only, we’re giving everyone the chance to see Jira’s inline editing in action! Jump over to University to give it a spin: If you have a University account, please login to try out the lessons Otherwise, […]