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Introducing Team Calendars 4: One calendar, many event types
Confluence Team Calendars has come a long way since its initial release in June 2011. Over 2,300 customers have benefitted from 19 new feature releases – drag-and-drop rescheduling of Jira issues and a beautiful new timeline view to name a few. Today it gets even better with an entirely new user experience in Team Calendars 4. Let’s take […]
What you need to know about the new git 1.8.4
Hey all, it’s Christmas again. Just kidding… But the new git 1.8.4 is out! This time is so packed with awesome that my selection skills have been put hard to the test. It’s easy and painless to upgrade It is customary for me to provide a few pointers for the upgrade, with caveats and reminders […]
Introducing Jira Agile 6.3
Jira Agile 6.3 is here! Formerly GreenHopper, Jira Agile has undergone more than just a name change — we’ve integrated agile more tightly into Jira than ever before: Jira Agile fully adopts ADG, the Atlassian Design Guidelines, for a more polished and consistent experience with Jira; Sprint and epic are now fully addressable entities within […]
Say “hello” to Jira Agile and Jira Capture
Capture for Jira is now a member of the Zephyr family. Please click here for additional details. Beginning today, GreenHopper, our agile planning software, and Bonfire, our rapid bug reporting add-on, have new names. Introducing Jira Agile and Jira Capture. The king is dead. Long live the king! While the names are new, the products you know and love […]
A tale of time zones and feature discovery in Jira
About a year ago, I wrote a feature for Jira during my 20% time that shipped in Jira 5.1. This feature notifies a user if their current time zone (as detected by their browser) doesn’t match the time zone they’ve set in their user preferences. Part of the reason I wrote the time zone detection […]
Jira tip of the month: playing favorites with filters
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Working on Jira Mobile Hey everyone! This month’s Jira tip focuses on how you can get more out of Jira’s mobile interface. When […]
Why write one test when you can write a hundred?
One of the greatest things about our software development process is our need and desire to test everything. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always translate into absolute best practices in the test code, coverage, or design, but we are always improving. Something I have been been meaning to get around to is property based (or automated specification […]
Atlassian Enterprise – Stash Webinar
Recently Jens Schumacher, the Group Product Manager for Developer Tools, delivered our first Atlassian Enterprise Stash Webinar. This webinar is focused on the latest updates and ongoings in the world of Stash specifically related to our large, enterprise customer deployments. Watch it now! Check out the webinar recording of the Atlassian Enterprise Stash Webinar here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbu4HXdiqyk […]
RebelLabs cooks up a continuous delivery pipeline with Bamboo
The mad-scientists-turned-provocateurs over at RebelLabs have released yet another stellar (and entertaining) report for software makers, Release Management for Enterprises. I find this exciting enough to blog about for two reasons: First, their take on what DevOps means for both individuals and the larger organization, as well as how the two disciplines drifted apart in the first […]
Announcing the “Git Ready” Workflows Webinar
How do you choose a git workflow that increases productivity and reduces the friction of your team? What are the battle tested practices of successful teams that moved to git? How is git used inside Atlassian? As you might have heard git has many compelling features and has gained incredible momentum in the industry at large. Yet understanding […]
Announcing Webinar: “Git Ready! Workflows”
Mark your calendar on August 27th and reserve one hour 9-10 AM PDT to tune in to some great content and insight into the fascinating topic of git Workflows. Since I joined Atlassian and before I’ve been writing extensively about various technical subjects related to git, ranging from submodules to recovering from troubles and why to use forks in the enterprise. This time I’ll hold […]
Navigating Confluence just got easier
One of my favorite aspects of Confluence is how information is neatly organized into spaces and pages. We’ve recently made some changes that make page hierarchy more visible and will save you from wasting time searching for the spaces and pages you need to get work done. Easy access New Spaces drop-down Most of the time, I don’t […]
Open Dojo #3 – Application monitoring (live from PuppetConf!)
It’s that time again… another DevOps-themed hangout is a-brewin’. Just for fun, we’ll be coming to you live from PuppetConf in San Francisco! Our topic for August is application monitoring. We’ll discuss why it’s a good engineering practice and trade war stories about how it saved our SaaS, of course. But we’ll also dig in deeper […]
Stash 2.7: Optimize your development workflow with Jira and Stash
Optimizing the development workflow is crucial to keeping product teams productive — after all, every second not coding is a second lost. In Stash 2.6 we introduced ways to give developers some time back with fork synchronization and repository search. In Stash 2.7, we continue the theme of optimizing your development workflows by putting more information […]
Atlassian kids scratch their programming itch, ShipIt style
Do your kids think you “play” with computers all day? Mine used to, that is, until yesterday. Last week a few of us parents organized a coding party for our kids to introduce them to the fun and creative world of programming. Given that our kids spend so much time interacting with computers, teaching them […]