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Jira Labels Plugin 2.1.1 Released
Just a note to let everyone know that we’ve released a new version of the Jira Labels Plugin. The Jira Labels Plugin gives you the ability to tag issues with arbitrary labels and then search for issues by label or view the most popular labels by project. This release is mostly about cleaning up various […]
Ride2Work Day: The Up-hill Battle
This week, Australia had an inaugural National Ride to Work Day with 30,000 participants across 3,000 workplaces. Atlassian was one of them. Our Sydney office is well-equipped for cyclists — bikes can frequently be seen parked in our lower level. Staff can bring their bikes into our building’s rear entrance and hop into one of […]
Introducing the SharePoint Connector for Confluence
Today at the kick off the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, we’re announcing our new SharePoint Connector for Confluence. So, what is it? In sum, the SharePoint Connector for Confluence does exactly what it sounds like it would do: allows customers to bridge the products together. Two separate collaboration repositories can live separately yet […]
Wikipatterns.com on Robert Scoble’s kyte.tv channel
Robert Scoble stopped by Atlassian’s San Francisco office today, and just interviewed me about Wikipatterns.com for his kyte channel: watch the video. Robert interviewed me using a Nokia N95, and it immediately uploads the video to kyte: within seconds after recording the video, we were all gathered around my laptop watching it. Kyte is the […]
New Atlassian Shirts: Fisheye, Clover and Crucible
Hot off the printing presses: new Atlassian Fisheye, Crucible and Clover shirts. New enterprise customers (that purchased since our acquisition of Cenqua on August 1st) will be receiving theirs in the mail shortly. They’re also for sale on the Atlassian store.
You know you’re a growing company when…
… the drinks refrigerator arrives in the SF office! And we’re still hiring everywhere.
Atlassian Agile Process part 3
Last week I posted part 2 Atlassian’s Agile software development process. Part 1 was the week before. This week I deliver the next iteration. Update: part 4 now available. Continuous Integration Continuously building and automatically testing our software is essential for quality. We have many dozens of combinations of editions, distribution types and different versions […]
What's the Best Operating System to run $foo on…?
The answer to “which operating system” is very similar to the one I give for “which database?” The best operating system for running Confluence is the one you have the most confidence administering.
Managing Wikis in Business, Wiki Patterns as a sign of quality
Back in July, I encouraged readers to contribute to a survey on wiki use in business being conducted by Penny Edwards for her MBA dissertation at The Open University Business School. The results of that research are out now in Managing Wikis in Business, on Penny’s blog. The wiki where she has documented the research […]
Mike Cannon-Brookes on Organisational Wiki Adoption
Mike Cannon-Brookes, Atlassian’s co-Founder, recently presented on Organisational Wiki Adoption at WebDirections South 2007 in Sydney, Australia. The presentation is excellent on both content and design – in fact, Mike set a goal of no bullet points: “FYI I set myself the challenge of
Confluence 2.7 Milestone 2
With the beginning of the Confluence 2.7 development cycle, we’ve decided to trying something new: milestone releases. Every two weeks, we’re rolling up a milestone release and putting it out through our Early Access Program. We’re doing this for three reasons: It’s good discipline for us to do frequent releases. It allows us to use […]
Jira!! Let's go fighting!
Our Japanese partner reported a bug introduced in Jira 3.11 in the Japanese version of Jira to do with the date picker popup not functioning correctly. The bug was caused by some javascript missing, which is something we’d fixed quite a while ago. In particular the following bits of setup for the Calendar were missing: […]
Got Sponsorship?
Max Pool is running a competition on his blog, Codesqueeze, and top prizes include Atlassian merchandise. Codesqueeze came to my attention when he posted a blog about things that piss him off with software companies. Maybe it was because he listed us as a good example of how to behave as a software company, or […]
Any Advice for New Startups? An Interview.
This video came across my RSS feed today. Atlassian CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes is interviewed (wearing the Jira Because You’ve Got Issues tshirt ) on the question of advice and tips for new startups at Web Directions South.
Jira wins Atlassian another award!
Recently Scott and I attended the Australian Technology Showcase (ATS) awards. The award ceremony was hosted by Mr. Ian Macdonald, the Minister for NSW State Development. Mr Macdonald announced that Atlassian Jira won the ATS Patrons’ Award for Outstanding Export Achievement.