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Don't test everything!
There was a lesson we learnt today: don’t test everything if you cannot write the universal test for it. I recently joined the great team at Atlassian that is behind Jira – bug tracking, issue tracking and project management and Confluence – the enterprise wiki. We released Jira 3.6 just few days ago and we […]
Dev Chat, the Revenge!
It’s been a while since our last Dev Chat, so I think it’s time for a sequel. Sequels are always better than the originals, right? The chat will be held at: 5pm, Thursday April 27th, San Francisco Time, which is 12am, Friday, April 28th GMT, which is 10am, Friday April 28th, Sydney Time Find your […]
An faster way to build and test your plugins
When we created the Confluence and Jira Plugin Development Kits our goal was to include absolutely everything someone would need to build a plugin in one download. We tried to imagine someone writing code on a plane, without net access. (In fact, this is how Mike tends to write his best plugins, but that’s another […]
Coming to a Blog Near You
This can either be described as fun with advertising or there’s something wrong with the water and it’s affecting our thinking. You can find a few new ads running for our products. On SmallWorld Podcast, you can hear this banter (MP3 file) about an office mate’s new addiction to Confluence. And coming to a blog […]
O Canada! O Wiki!
Helix Commerce of Toronto today joined Atlassian’s partner program to bring their creative thinking about wikis to Canada. Helix founder and leader Dr. Cindy Gordon is a champion of new ideas in corporate innovation, and has been profiled in the University of Western Ontario Business School’s new book “Women in the Lead
Smart Confluence 'Terminal' Macro
We were reading through some Tangosol documentation recently (which is conveniently built using Confluence) and we saw a handy little trick on this page. They created a user-macro to display a terminal style for the chunks of their documentation that represent command-line interaction the user should follow. It’s easy, it’s fun, and it makes your […]
Jira 3.6 Released
Jira 3.6, now available to download, includes over 50 new features, improvements, and bug fixes. One of the new features is the ability to assign permissions and notifications to an issue’s group field value. For example, users could specify a ‘Responsible Group’ for an issue, and that group’s members would get notifications and permissions for […]
Jeremy’s Little Corner of the Web
Using Confluence as a collaborative application for writing was Jeremey’s blog about, well, using Confluence for writing a paper with his mates. An alternative title I’ve come up with for this entry: “Trials of an Atlassian developer eating his own dogfood.” 🙂
Fun WebWork tricks
If you’re ever wondering what a path like ‘.’, ‘..’, ‘../..’ resolve to in WebWork, just add this handy little snippet to your template: <webwork:property value=”/webworkStack” escape=”false”/> That will print a HTML rendering of the WebWork stack and let you see exactly what going on. For example: com.atlassian.jira.web.action.issue.ViewIssue@66db21 * [GenericEntity:Issue][created,2006-02-27 11:36:11.0]… o com.atlassian.jira.bean.SubTaskBeanImpl@bc5aea + com.atlassian.jira.bean.SubTask@3bd […]
An Insight Into the Confluence Development Process
We recently upgraded the Atlassian intranet to a pre-release build of Confluence 2.2. In the spirit of eating our own dogfood, we turned on the new CAPTCHA support, even though it’s completely unnecessary on a private wiki. This led to the following internal email conversation:
And the Codegeist Winners Are…
We’re excited to finally be able to announce the winners of Atlassian’s first Codegeist Plugin Competition. In Codegeist, contestants had eight weeks to develop, document and submit a previously unreleased plugin for Jira or Confluence. With $10k in cash prizes and heaps of free software licenses at stake, the competition was fierce.
Codegeist Plugin Competition Results
Thank you all for your patience, but I’m excited to finally be able to announce the winners of Atlassian’s first Codegeist Plugin Competition. In Codegeist, contestants had eight weeks to develop, document and submit a previously unreleased plugin for Jira or Confluence. With $10k in cash prizes and heaps of free software licenses at stake, […]
IssueCreator
Sometimes, on those really dark (or truly inspired) days of strongly-caffeinated development, one needs a way to rapidly create a large number of new Jira issues. Thanks to Atlassian developer Tom Davies, there’s a bit of light at the end of the QA tunnel— IssueCreator. IssueCreator provides a simplified Swing interface for quick Jira data […]
Over Eleven Hundred Customers Select Confluence
Over 1,100 commercial and academic customers in more than 45 countries have selected its enterprise wiki software, Confluence. This significant milestone positions Confluence as the most widely adopted commercial enterprise wiki on the market today.
Confluence Selected as Editor’s Choice at Network Computing
We were thrilled to see that Confluence was Network Computing’s pick for best commercial wiki. “Our Editor’s Choice, Atlassian Software Systems’ Confluence 2.1.2, has all the features that suit an enterprise wiki. It’s easy to install and set up, yet flexible and extensible. It supports user and group access controls down to the page level. […]