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A New Use for Confluence
What do you get when you combine 35 employees, a bar, laptops, and Confluence? A great team building and social event. That’s precisely what Telenor, Norway’s largest provider of telecommunications systems, did after their quarterly meeting. Five teams hooked laptops onto a local network in a bar, grabbed some beers, and sat down and used […]
Codegeist judging update
My apologies to everyone: I had really hoped to have the contest judging completed by the end of this week, but that’s not going to happen. However, things are on track for next week, so look for an announcement late next week or early the following. Thanks, all, for your patience. And stay tuned.
Jira 3.5.3 Released
Atlassian announces the latest release of the award winning issue-tracking platform – Jira 3.5.3 – available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions. This release includes over 20 bug fixes and improvements. Read more in the release notes.
Factories of Mass Production
While working on the new feature of the ability to add custom events to Jira (available in the upcoming Jira 3.6 release), I thought it would be of interest to discuss a point on adding new objects to the Jira source through PicoContainer. In Summary A new object was introduced to the Jira source that […]
Wiki Requirements
Every organisation needs to put some thought behind their system and business requirements when selecting a wiki or any type of enterprise software. We thought this was a really cool description of the thought process for one company. Sure, they happened to choose Confluence — and that’s something we don’t mind either!
Codegeist is closed! Now comes the fun part
The first Atlassian Codegeist Plugin Competition closed yesterday, and we ended up with some terrific entries.
Atlassian Jira Wins Jolt Award
Great news from the Jolt Awards… Atlassian Jira 3.4 was selected as a Defect Tracking, Change, and Configuration Management Productivity Winner. Our own Scott Farquhar was on-hand to receive the winner’s plaque at the award ceremony that took place last night at SD West in the Santa Clara Convention Center. Twenty Jolt judges whittled down […]
Atlassian Developer Chat
Thanks to everyone who showed up for the Developer Chat on Tuesday. We had a great turn out: lots of users and plenty of Atlassians to answer questions. The discussion didn’t revolve around Codegeist specifically, but there were still lots of interesting nuggets. I’ve posted the transcript for you to read if you weren’t able […]
AccuRev and Atlassian Partner
AccuRev and Atlassian today announced a strategic partnership at SD West. Terms of the partnership include joint integration, sales and support for AccuRev’s best-of-breed software configuration management (SCM) solution and Atlassian’s Jira, the professional issue tracking and project management software application used by over 2,200 organizations in more than 55 countries.
Codegeist Developer Chat starting now
Heads up, people. We’re about to start the Dev Chat. Let’s hope those RSS readers do their thing. You can find instructions for logging in here: http://chat.atlassian.com
Introducing the Customer Advocates
Atlassian announced today the introduction of their Customer Advocacy program as part of their commitment to legendary service. This new value added service, offered at no additional cost, will help customers get the most out of every interaction with Atlassian.
Ten Nine Days left for Codegeist; Atlassian Developer Chat next week
We’re heading for the Codegeist finish line: only nine days left to submit your entries. And since it’s coming down to the wire, we wanted to give all of you frantically-coding plugin developers one more chance to get help on your Codegeist entries before the end of the contest. So we’re going to do a […]
Cool new features in the Jira Toolkit
We’ve added a bunch of really nice features to the Jira Toolkit recently. I wanted to take a minute an outline the new additions because they’re enormously useful.
Jira 3.5.2 Released
Atlassian announces the latest release of the award winning issue-tracking platform – Jira 3.5.2 – available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions. This release includes over 20 bug fixes and improvements. Read more in the release notes.
Guess Who Just Turned 4?
If it wasn’t apparent from the red and blue balloons on the home page, we’re having a sale on our software to commemorate Atlassian’s 4th birthday. This means, in company terms we’re no longer a baby, we’re a toddler now. This is a great time to purchase Jira and Confluence because both products are discounted […]