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Does simply using so called Enterprise 2.0 tools mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded?
Tom Mandel asks this question on the FASTForward Blog. I think that simply using the tools does not mean Enterprise 2.0 has succeeded. Enterprise 2.0 technology is the medium by which collaboration can succeed, but technology will not succeed for technology’s sake. Knowledge Management technology was the last major effort that tried to transform collaboration […]
Working at a “thinking” company
I recently joined Atlassian after spending 15 years in large corporates. I was drawn to Atlassian due to its culture and its young, smart people. Indeed, I was one of the younger people in my previous company, whereas I’m now one of the older ones at Atlassian! I noticed from Day 1 how Atlassian was […]
A little more context with your logs sir?
Anyone who has ever had to look at logs from a Confluence instance knows that they are pretty verbose. Yet at times we still wish there was a little bit more information in them, particularly regarding the nature of the web request in which the log message was generated. CONF-7878 was raised by a user […]
Mickey Uses a Wiki
The June issue of Fast Company profiles Disney executive vice president of digital media Albert Cheng, and how a wiki is at the center of his 20 month old digital media department’s reinvention of TV distribution. The article discusses how the wiki started: His team didn’t ask permission to create the internal Web site, with […]
Gliffy 1.3 Released!
The guys over at Gliffy have released an update to their Gliffy Confluence Plugin, that lets you create diagrams directly inside a Confluence page. The new version contains lots of useful improvements, chief among them “vastly improved performance.” That’s always a nice thing to see. Other enhancements include a new document manager that allows you […]
Video: Wikis in Plain English is an excellent wiki primer
Peter Caputa of WhizSpark and the PC4Media blog and Brady Forrest of O’Reilly Radar write about Lee and Sachi LeFever’s video Wikis in Plain English, which does an excellent job of explaining a wiki in comparison to email. The video uses the scenario of four friends who need to coordinate an event – in this […]
Jira Codegeist Winners; Codegeist Community Award
This year, we had the more entries in the Jira category than any of the other product categories. It was quite a surprise, given last year’s contest, where Confluence lead Jira by more than double. But who can truly fathom the mysteries of an open-source developer community? They build what they want to build : […]
Codegeist Winners: Crowd
The Crowd team — Justen, Justin and Shihab — looked through the four Crowd entries and selected our first and second place winners. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Crowd JAAS Login Module by Brad Harvey. The Crowd team was very impressed by the quality of this submission. The archietcture was smart, […]
Confluence Hosted: Getting Started with Seeding and Scaffolding
This is the first in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the Hosted wiki blogs. You’ve heard over and over again that wikis are the hot new thing in corporate applications, the collaboration tool of the future. You’ve done your homework, performed […]
Introducing a Wiki and Growing Use Beyond Development Groups
On his blog Musings of a Software Development Manager, Ed Gibbs writes about his experience as a Wiki Champion in a software development group. He points out that Confluence was brought in, “at the urging of a motivated tech lead
Codegeist Winners: Confluence
This year there were fourteen new Confluence plugins entered in Codegeist. The quality was universally high and the competition was fierce. There were some truly impressive entries. First Place The winner of the First Place, and $4,000, is the CheckLists Plugin by Roberto Dominguez of Comala Technologies. It implements a set of macros to generate […]
Codegeist Winners: Bamboo
The product development teams each spent an afternoon last week reviewing in detail all of the Codegeist entries. And I’m going to announce all of the winners this week, starting with Bamboo today. We had seven excellent Bamboo plugins entered in Bamboo’s first year in the contest. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to […]
How to get a job at Atlassian
As a new ‘face’ on the Atlassian News Blog, I should probably introduce myself. I recently started working at Atlassian as a Business Analyst, charged with ensuring that our internal systems continue to provide legendary service to our customers. With all the interest that’s out there about Atlassian and its famous culture, I thought I’d […]
Bamboo has Jira covered
We recently installed the latest Bamboo Code Coverage plugin on our internal Bamboo build box for Jira. This plugin was contributed via our Codegeist competition. After using it for a little while I have to say it’s an incredibly useful tool. The coverage tests run once a week. Currently this only accesses unit test coverage, […]
Upcoming Atlassian User Group in Frankfurt, Germany
If you’re in the Frankfurt area, we have some great news! Atlassian Partner, Pix Software, is hosting an Atlassian User Group in Frankfurt, Germany on June 18, 2007 from 9am to 5pm. The event focuses on Confluence, the enterprise wiki, and the day’s agenda is booked with interesting speakers and sessions. (English will be the […]