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Java User Group in Memphis Area
If this blog looks like déjà vu, it means you probably read my News post from the other day. Just wanted to be sure to get the word out about a new Java User Group. If you’re in the area and want to know more, check out the Memphis and Mid-South JUG site.
Guicing Up Crucible
Most Atlassian products use some inversion of control (IoC) container – Confluence uses Spring and Jira uses Picocontainer. Fisheye and Crucible don’t use any IoC at present, and as part of the process of choosing one we decided to spike using Guice as Crucible’s IoC container. We wanted to learn about Guice because it has […]
Jira 3.11 EAP
We have just released a Developer Preview build of Jira 3.11 as part of our Early Access Program. This new build is for the benefit of plugin developers so that they can make their plugins ready for Jira 3.11. This developer preview is vitally important. In Jira 3.11, we upgraded Lucene from 1.9 to 2.2. […]
Memphis-area JUG
Java developers in the Memphis area should check out the upcoming first meeting of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG taking place on September 20th. Atlassian is sponsoring the group with a free Community license of Confluence and some Atlassian shirts are being shipped out next week. Learn more about the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. (Jonathan, you’ll be happy to […]
Document Management vs Knowledge Management
Stewart Mader, Atlassian’s wiki evangelist, recently presented a series of seminars on ‘How do you grow wiki adoption?‘. During the presentation in Sydney, an attendee asked how to use a wiki for *Document Management*. While the gentleman could appreciate all the benefits that a wiki brings, he couldn’t fathom how to move his organisation out […]
Announce new plugin, Dynamic Tasklist 2. Check!
I wanted to point out to everyone a brand new plugin we just released, Dynamic Tasklist 2. We’ve had two tasklist macros in Confluence for a long time, {dynamictasklist} and {tasklist} but they were both fairly limited. I use tasklists in Confluence all the time, and I was ferquently frustrated. So when Developer Network member […]
OpenID and Crowd SSO: TheServerSide Video Tech Brief
The ServerSide’s Eugene Ciurana interviewed Justen Stepka, Atlassian’s lead developer of Crowd, at The Ajax Experience in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. Justen discusses how Crowd came about, how the new OpenID capability of Crowd 1.1 works, why OpenID is relevant to companies (esp. versus other standards like SAML), and what developers should know […]
Little CSS print stylesheet tip
There are many different media. Web applications are on the web but sometimes there is a need to bridge across and get the information to another medium, specifically a printable medium. A great example of such cases are reports from Jira. Some reports are interactive and best viewed on the web. Others are intended to […]
The Scoop: Secret Wiki Buisiness Podcast
Atlassian founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes talks with Mark Jones in The Scoop: secret wiki buisiness. Also joining in on the conversation are Philip Sim of Media Connect and Foad Fadajhi, BRW’s technology editor. Hear their views and learn more about the rise of wiki and collaboration software within enterprises. Specifically on the podcast, you’ll hear Mike […]
Confluence 2.6 Developer Release 1
I just back from a wonderful summer vacation, but I wanted to highlight this developer release announcement that we posted on the Confluence Developer mailing list a few weeks ago: There have been small but significant changes to the CSS that styles all of Confluence. We’ve modified the typography and layout in fundamental ways. Macros […]
Data URLs
Sometimes you like to think that you pretty much know everything there is to know about URIs and web browsers. I learned something today that I had absolutely no idea about before. The magic data URL protocol. It’s defined in RFC2397 as a way to include immediate data in a URL. For example the following […]
Dreaming in Code – Book Review
Having just finished this book that somehow appeared in the Atlassian developer library, I thought I’d review it and comment on some of the issues it raises from my perspective as a software developer. Software is Hard in the words of legendary computer scientist Donald Knuth. Scott Rosenberg’s Dreaming in Code is an insightful exploration […]
Getting Started on Confluence: Documentation for Beginners
Wikis have become huge phenomenon for businesses for collaboration because of their simplicity and ease of use, Confluence being no exception to this. But not all customers would immediately agree that their users are ready for a wiki, or for that matter, most web-based applications. Being in the business of selling a wiki, it’s easy […]
USC Confluence: A Campus-Wide Academic Wiki
Tommi Rantanen published some sobering thoughts on the topic of Finland: not the promised land of technology on his Endless lesson blog (nice title, by the way). What caught my eye was the reference to a PDF from USC on their use of Confluence campus-wide. The PDF is a case study published by Educause. Some […]
Wiki Adoption Part 2: Be Firm, and Think Long Term
This is the second in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1 is here. Once your group starts using the wiki, be firm about making sure people use it and don’t drift back to earlier means of collaboration. For example, if you used […]