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Share your Minecraft world with a Google Map on AWS
Minecraft is one of my favorite video games of the last few years and if sales numbers are anything to go by, over 17 million other people agree with me! One of the great things about Minecraft is the permanence of your achievements; if you build something awesome out of Minecraft blocks, it becomes an indelible […]
Fun Fridays: a virtual Atlassian user group
Top 10 Hipchat Highlights from 2014
2014 has been a massive year for Hipchat. Thanks mostly to a rock star team and ever-growing amount of awesome customers, we exceeded a lot of the high expectations we had entering the year. As we prepare for what will be an even bigger 2015, we wanted to take a moment and highlight some of the achievements that we’re especially proud of from the past year. Check out a countdown of the top 10 HipChat-iest moments in 2014.
Fun Fridays: Atlassian’s top 3 accomplishments of 2014
Atlassian opens 4 new offices in Australia (well, sort of…)
The Atlassian Pop-Up Hiring Team has returned to our Sydney HQ after a 10-day hiring tour around Australia: from Sydney to Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Adelaide. We hosted evening networking events in each city and offered interview opportunities during the day, all with the goal of finding the “best in our backyard.”
Atlassian update for Git and Mercurial vulnerability
The maintainers of the Git and Mercurial open source projects have identified a vulnerability in the Git and Mercurial clients for Macintosh and Windows operating systems that could allow critical files to be overwritten with unwanted files, including executables. We recommend that all client users of Git and Mercurial, including Fisheye, Crucible, and Sourcetree users, update their Git client with […]
Feature Branches, Builds and Multiple Environments
In our recent Dev Den Office Hours we were asked some very interesting questions. One that caught my attention and on which I elaborated a bit on was the following: “One question I’ve had a hard time finding info on is in setting up feature branching with multiple environments (dev, test, prod for example) […] I’d love […]
Collaborate with developers using Jira Service Desk
We know developers love Jira. That’s why over 25,000 teams already use Jira to track work. Now it’s time to get your service desk into the mix. Jira already empowers your developers to build great software. Similarly, Jira Service Desk allows you to provide legendary service for your customers. Best of all, you can use one piece of software to deliver both!
Using Stash and JIRA for development bliss
A couple of weeks ago I ran a webinar on how to enhance your Git development experience with JIRA and Stash. The half-hour allocated for Q&A wasn’t quite long enough, so I’m following up on some of the unanswered questions in blog form. If you didn’t catch the webinar, it’s now live on YouTube: Check it out if […]
Goodbye, Atlassian OnDemand. Hello, Atlassian Cloud!
Back in July we rebranded our deployment options to Cloud and Server but our hosted service for cloud products, Atlassian OnDemand, remained on the old naming convention. Today, we begin the next phase of this rollout by introducing Atlassian Cloud. You’ll begin to see references to OnDemand being swapped out with Atlassian Cloud over the coming weeks and months.
Fun Fridays: Mark raps about 3 ways he uses Hipchat
Jira Service Desk customer stories: Puppet Labs
From small tech start-up to venture-backed company with more than 300 employees, Puppet Labs found itself at a crossroads. It needed to scale its support channels while maintaining service levels. The builder of IT automation software–on-premise and in the cloud–decided to turn to Jira Service Desk for help. During the early days at Puppet Labs, customers filed support issues informally–that is, in any way they could.
Watch this webinar: Practical advice for agile planning and collaboration
I recently hosted a webinar with Itamar Goldminz, the Director of Product at Opower, in which we discussed the best practices that Atlassian and Opower have found using Jira and Confluence to plan and collaborate when building software. We focused on a variety of topics, including: requirements management strategies, approaches for group decision-making, and how to help teams outside of the software development process make use of agile best practices.