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How to Become the Most Popular Guy at Work
Like a lot of tech companies here in the Bay area, at Atlassian San Francisco, we roll out the beer and wine cart every Friday afternoon. Except that our beer cart is actually a beer bicycle driven around the office by a new hire, who hand-delivers a cold tallboy to every employee who wants one. […]
Atlassian Marketplace Top 10 Add-ons of 2012
The Atlassian Marketplace had a banner year in 2012–thousands of Atlassian customers took advantage of our revamped add-on experience for finding, trying, and buying add-ons for Jira, Confluence, Stash, Bamboo, and more. What can you do now that you couldn’t do a year ago? Start an add-on evaluation in one click Consolidate your Atlassian products and add-ons on […]
12 Favorites of Jira in 2012
Today, December 21st 2012, marks the end of the Mayan calendar, and many speculate we’ll have an Apocalypse before the day is over. If you’re reading this, you’re either just as skeptical as I am, or you love the iPad you got for Christmas so much that you want to spend your precious last hours […]
Super Powerful Moms: reflections from the Girl Geek Dinner
The tech world has been paying a lot of attention to women like Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer lately – moms in high-profile, high-powered careers. Are they “ruining it” for working parents everywhere by not taking maternity leave? (A notion I find utterly ridiculous.) Can they possibly be good parents while working so hard? (Pretty sure they […]
Scala and Erasure
Mention generics to anyone who knows much about them and they’ll usually have an opinion on type reification and erasure. For the uninitiated, erasure is where a List of Strings (or a List parameterised by the String type) “forgets” that it has been parameterised by the String type once it has been compiled – ie. the type parameter is […]
5 Productivity Apps I Can’t Live Without
I’m a productivity junkie. There, I said it. GTD. Inbox zero. I’ve tried and tested them all. If you could see my App Store history you’d get it. Heck, if I were married I’d have a private account to hide my purchases. Still reading? I’m guessing you’re a productivity junkie too. According to the Mayans, the […]
Attention Bay Area Non-Profits: Atlassian Wants to Help Today’s Youth
The Atlassian Foundation gives back in many ways – by giving employees time and funds to support the causes in which they believe, by making direct donations to charities, and by donating Atlassian product licenses to non-profit and Open Source projects. To date, the Atlassian Foundation has donated over $2.5 million and contributed over 1,500 hours to charitable causes […]
Jira tip of the month: take a moment for yourself
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian’s tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. If you spend a lot of time in Jira, take a moment to check out all the personal settings available. It […]
Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012 (part 2)
…and we’re back! Just one work-week until Santa (who adopted Kanban last year, and thankfully the elves are not in crunch mode). Let’s kick it off by resuming our Top 10 countdown. #5: Build from Custom Revision It’s pretty common to have Bamboo poll your repository for changes every 3-5 minutes. And it’s pretty common […]
Marketplace Monday: Documents for Jira
Documents for Jira by StonikByte lets you manage files in Jira on a project level and store them on your Jira server. With file storage options like company file servers, Microsoft SharePoint, cloud storage services, and the file graveyard known as the “email inbox,” why store files in Jira? Well, if you attach files to […]
GreenHopper Tip of the Month: Keyboard Shortcuts
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. Zip around GreenHopper even faster with Keyboard Shortcuts If you live within GreenHopper, use these keyboard shortcuts to save you a few seconds […]
Guest Blog: Import Visio Files with Lucidchart’s Add-on for Jira and Confluence
This is a guest blog post from Eliza Wright of Lucidchart, a diagram viewer and editor for Confluence and Jira. Lucidchart: Easy Diagramming for Confluence and Jira Confluence and Jira are built for collaboration from the ground up. Great teamwork requires the ability to quickly and effectively get your point across–visual communication is a perfect […]
Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012
Oh December, how we love thee… sugar plums dance upon office snack tables, Hollywood finally releases the year’s Oscar contenders to theaters, and you can’t so much as refill your egg-nog without tripping on a Top 10 list. So in the grand tradition of news anchors, the Billboard charts and every teen magazine in publication, […]
2012’s Twelve Most Read Developer Blogs
As the year ends, we decided to look in the rear view mirror and see which Developer blog posts were the most popular. So, here, for your viewing pleasure on 12/12/2012, the top 12 blog posts of 2012 –ordered from earliest to latest in appearance. 13 Steps to Learn and Perfect Security Testing in […]
Jira 5.2: in case you missed it
People love the re-imagined search experience in Jira 5.2. The awesome power of Jira lies in its flexibility, and harnessing that power can be a daunting task, so let’s take a look at some of the other things our hard-working development team shipped in Jira 5.2 to make it easier than ever for you to […]