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Build with Heart and Balance, rides, clowns, and Dagwood dogs
Those who have peered into the culture of Atlassian are sure to have noticed the company values we hold near and dear. Although a little more reserved than its boorish, Open Company, No Bullshit and Don’ t#@!% the Customer cousins, our company value Build with Heart and Balance is so important to us that we take […]
Do Agile Right Webinar recap – Q&A with Atlassian product managers
In January, two of our very own Atlassian Confluence product managers, Sherif Mansour and John Masson, hosted a live webinar where they shared agile best practices that they’ve learned over the years, including: When to write product requirements documents and when to seek alternatives How to write effective product requirements documents How to build prototypes when designing new features Using Jira and Confluence for […]
Announcing Summit 2014
Atlassian Summit 2014 takes place September 9, 10, and 11 at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, CA. Register by June 1 and save $300 off general admission. This September, Atlassian Summit heads to Silicon Valley to connect our largest group of customers (from over 40 countries!) with Atlassian product teams and Expert partners. […]
Git and project dependencies
Consider the following questions: How do you handle project dependencies with git? Our project is made up of multiple inter-dependent repositories. Currently we manage those with svn:externals. What’s the best way to handle those with git? How do you split a very big repository in smaller components using git? [cta]The topic appears to be a big pain […]
Fisheye/Crucible 3.4: Fullscreen mode, Stash integration
Software development is a fast-moving industry and we can see today that a lot of companies are doing a transition from traditional VCS like Subversion to Git. It’s to support that effort that we’ve developed Stash, our Git development platform for teams, at Atlassian. With Fisheye/Crucible 3.4, we improved the integration with that platform as […]
Jira for asset management: Physical implementation
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Jira for asset management: Overview 2 Jira for asset management: Inventory setup 3 Jira for asset management: Workflow setup 4 Jira for asset management: Reporting setup 5 Jira for asset management: Physical implementation I know I said this is a four-part series, but after […]
Case study: How Orbitz migrated to Git
The first step of any trip is getting there. To make trip planning painless, Orbitz Worldwide – a leading online travel site operating in more than 180 countries – offers easy-to-use online travel booking for flights, hotels, and other travel services. Orbitz generates more than $11 billion in travel transactions annually. That means that for every second Orbitz’s website […]
5 reasons Stash users are glad they chose Stash
When we’re out n’ about at meetups, conferences, etc., people often ask why they should use Stash when there are so many other options out there. At the risk of waxing existential, that’s a question each team must answer for themselves. But I can tell you why other teams have chosen–or switched to!–Stash. Behold: Five things you won’t find in […]
A look back at the past months for Fisheye and Crucible
Not so long ago I was lucky enough to speak at our Getting Git Right tour about our migration from Subversion to Git here at Atlassian. I loved sharing our experience, and I had great questions from the crowd. It also confirmed my belief that many people need some time to make the transition from […]
OpenSSL and Atlassian
Since the announcement of the Heartbleed bug, our teams have been assessing the impact to our products and infrastructure and deploying fixes as needed. We’ve confirmed that this is not an issue within our products but is an infrastructure issue. We have reissued the SSL certificates across all our hosted infrastructure. This bug has been […]
Jira for asset management: Reporting setup
This article is part of a blog series! Part Title 1 Jira for asset management: Overview 2 Jira for asset management: Inventory setup 3 Jira for asset management: Workflow setup 4 Jira for asset management: Reporting setup 5 Jira for asset management: Physical implementation We’ve created issue types and custom fields for the assets we […]
Codegeist is back – Let’s get developing!
We’re proud to announce the return of Codegeist, Atlassian’s development competition. Whether you’re a seasoned Atlassian add-on developer or just trying out our platform, Codegeist is a great way to win cool prizes for your code. How to enter We want to make it easy to participate in Codegeist, so there’s no need to register […]
Atlassian pledges $1M at the 2014 Room to Read Wine Gala
Every year, our partner charity and global nonprofit Room to Read holds an annual Wine Gala for an evening of fine wine, good food and philanthropy. It’s the nonprofit’s biggest fundraising event of the year. With more than a million dollars raised at last year’s Sydney event, the pressure was on to raise even more this year. Would […]
Have you hugged your admin lately?
This is a guest post from Daniel Wester, co-founder of Wittified LLC. Check them out on the Atlassian Marketplace. Administering Jira, Confluence, Stash, or another Atlassian product can sometimes seem like a thankless job. As an admin you have a number of responsibilities: training new users, providing best practices, and continually evaluating add-ons and product […]
Clover 3.3 is a great choice for Spock tests
The Spock Framework is one of the best unit testing frameworks compatible with JUnit. It’s based on the Groovy language and it takes its capabilities to an upper level (thanks to huge AST transformations performed during compilation). You can write beautiful yet powerful tests, including but not limited to: data series, mocking, behavior testing, and […]