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Confluence Hosted: Invitations and BarnRaising
This is the second in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the Hosted wiki blogs. For more about Confluence Hosted, click here. In the first post of this series, we discussed Getting Started with Seeding and Scaffolding as a way to get […]
Selenium – Is it worth the pain?
Thought I might share with you a few of my experiences with using Selenium. It is a little overdue as I have only recently been able to bring myself to talk about it. With Jira 3.10, we introduced the AJAX-based ‘User-picker’ and ‘Issue-picker’. A very handy feature, if I don’t say so myself.
Aeron, Cube or Mac Pro?
We’re known for providing Aeron’s to all employees (not just developers), but someone snapped this photo of Pete, Brendan, Ben and I madly working on some last updates for the “Cenqua acquisition”:http://www.atlassian.com/cenqua. Incidentally this photo shows a few things: # You can never have enough chairs # Mac Pro boxes can easily support a large […]
Welcome, Cenqua
Today we put out an announcement on Business Wire that Cenqua and Atlassian are teaming up. More technically, Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. As of today you can purchase Fisheye, Crucible, and Clover on www.atlassian.com. We’re really excited, not only because we’ve gained three fantastic products— products that assist us with our own software development— but […]
DateFormat objects and thread-safety
One of my daily responsibilities is to look over the code that is checked into our Jira source base. I look at every commit and check for any obvious mistakes, typos or things that can be instantly improved. I must admit that in recent months it was and still is quite hard to pick any […]
OSGi Plugin for Struts 2: Lessons from Confluence
Confluence and Jira have a great plugin system at their core that allows you to install collections of actions, Spring beans (Confluence), jobs, etc. as discrete plugins. Confluence supports hot-deploying these plugins so they can be added, removed, or upgraded without bringing down the application. This capability is so powerful that internally we are moving […]
response.sendError() vs response.setStatus()
In the Servlet 2.4 specification, response.sendError() and response.setStatus() are treated differently. The former redirects you to the configured error page, but the latter still assumes that you’re going to be providing the response yourself:
Terence Parr on ANTLR presentation
Last month, Atlassian hosted Sydney’s Java User Group meeting at our new offices in Sussex St. We were lucky enough to see a presentation by Terence Parr, the author of Antlr, a well-known tool for language parsing, compiling and much more. A video of the presentation is now available for download: Windows media format (WMV) […]
Confluence 2.5.5 Released
Just a quick note to let you know Confluence 2.5.5 was just released. We recommend all our customers upgrade to this latest version as it resolves two security bugs. Where to next? Customers, view the release notes and upgrade now. Interested in learning more about the wiki? Visit our website, where you can download a […]
Wiki Adoption Part 1: The Conversation is Key
Over the past several months I’ve been meeting with Atlassian’s customers who are using Confluence in a variety of industries including technology, financial services, media, higher education, consulting & professional services, and as I do so I’m gathering an even wider ranging sense of how organizations are using wikis and learning how to change existing […]
Atlassian User Group in Zurich
If you happen to be in the Zürich area on 19 September, join in the fun! Atlassian Partner, beecom software solutions, is hosting a free Atlassian User Group event in Zürich then. The day-long event will concentrate on Confluence and how the wiki is used for project management and knowledge management. View the detailed agenda […]
Bamboo 1.2 and Acegi Security
In Bamboo 1.2, we introduced plan level permissions as a major feature. Already with an Acegi Security framework in place, we figured it was a natural extension to build our permissions framework on top of Acegi. Bamboo Security Architecture There are really two sides to security in Bamboo (or any other application for that matter): […]
BIT Sponsor Breakfast
Atlassian’s Sydney office hosted a wonderful barbeque breakfast for UNSW (Univeristy of New South Wales) BIT (Business Information Technology) students. The breakfast provided the students with the opportunity to explore the industry and learn more about their career options. The BBQ breakfast was followed by a two hour presentation. The presentation covered Atlassian’s history (Scott), […]
Wikipatterns.com reaches a milestone
As of today, the Wikipatterns.com community has grown to 500 registered users! I was alerted to this last night when a new user emailed me to say that he couldn’t register. When we initially set up Wikipatterns in January, we gave it a Confluence community license for up to 500 users. That ceiling has now […]
T-shirt Madness
Atlassian is selling what?! Yup, t-shirts and more. T-shirts, mugs, post-it cubes… they’re all Atlassian-branded and they’re all for sale. Where? At the Atlassian Goods storefront. Don’t worry, we are still happily handing out a complimentary t-shirt when you purchase one of our enterprise licenses. Customers and non-customers really seem to like our shirts and […]