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Codegeist Ideas
Since I started talking about Codegeist this year, I’ve been pointing people at the plugin wishlist. It’s the place where we capture all the plugin ideas that we don’t have time to build, and where the community can suggest new plugins that they think would be useful. That’s all well and good, but it’s a […]
Confluence makes list of 80 Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives
The Online Education Database recently published this robust list of 80 Open Education Resource (OER) tools for publishing and development initiatives. Among these initiatives is a focus on collaborative educational efforts. We are proud to have our wiki, Confluence, included in this vast list of great online tools. Currently, Confluence is being used by a […]
What Happened to Knowledge Management?
Euan Semple points out two articles that examine the state of knowledge management. In Whence goeth KM? Dave Snowden concludes that knowledge management is on its way out because it has changed so much since it first appeared in the early 1990s. It came to prominence at the same time that technology was beginning to […]
WebDAV 1.1 Released
We’ve just put out an update for the Confluence WebDAV plugin. The WebDAV plugins allows you to access your Confluence server as though it were a Windows network drive. You can edit documents and attachments directly in Office, just like they were on a traditional shared drive. Version 1.1 contains lots of fixes, as well […]
Dozens of Updates in Confluence 2.5
Confluence 2.5 is now available for download. It introduces support for one of the most voted-upon features, flexible page permissions, which allow you to assign permissions on a page level for multiple groups and users. In addition, more than two dozen issues have been fixed or improved in this release. Download a copy of Confluence […]
Codegeist Update; Plugin Hosting
We’re starting to get some great entries in for Codegeist. There’s a lot of activity around Bamboo, our new continuous integration server, which is very exciting to us. There’s a Cobertura code-coverage plugin, which we’re already using on the Jira team. And there’s an NAnt plugin that shows the .Net community is well-represented. You should […]
Running a Confluence pilot: some tips
Recently, I was meeting with one of our education customers about piloting Confluence, and during our conversation I shared some tips and suggestions from my own experience piloting Confluence in higher ed before coming to Atlassian. I thought I’d share some of them here: Early Adopter — It’s important to have someone who’s eager to […]
Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG
We’re sponsoring the pizza and beer at an upcoming Silicon Valley Java User Group meeting on May 15th. If you’re interested in participating, more information can be found at BayCHI or Java.net. With the JavaOne 2007 conference taking place the prior week, the primary topic of discussion will be what transpired at JavaOne.
5th Birthday
Atlassian has reached the grand old age of five years old! This was definitely an occasion to celebrate, and we did so in style at our San Francisco and Sydney offices. The San Fran staff piled into a stretched SUV to take a tour of Sonoma where we had a wonderful time playing bocce and […]
Codegeist Dev Chat Tomorrow
We’re holding another Dev Chat tomorrow evening (US time) to help out with folks building plugins for Codegeist. If you have any development questions, come by and we’ll help you out. The chat is tomorrow, April 25th at 6pm PST. There will be a chat room devoted to each product, so join the one that […]
MentorNet Wiki Helps Women Entrepreneurs Connect and Collaborate
MentorNet is a program from the Australian Businesswomen’s Network (ABN) that now offers Confluence for mentors and peers to collaborate and receive e-learning and mentoring. Atlassian supports non-profits like MentorNet with free software licenses. To date, we’ve donated more than 2,500 free open source and non-profit licenses. A couple weeks ago a few of here […]
OpenID 2.0 Logo Concepts
The OpenID project has proposed a new marketing image with the launch of the 2.0 version of the protocol, quoting the email thread: The existing OpenID logo has been a good fit over the last year or so. Its easily identifiable and pretty much ubiquitous now… Our goal will be to select one of the […]
Wish upon a Plugin
If you’re thinking about entering the Atlassian Codegeist competition, you may already have a plugin in mind that you want to develop. If you don’t, you should consider looking at the ideas on the Plugin Wishlist. The Plugin Library has a complete list of all the plugins that are freely available to customers. The Plugin […]
Cluster This (Too)!
In January, Confluence 2.3 became the first commercial wiki that could be clustered. We billed it as, “Confluence Massive… provides unlimited scalability, together with exceptional performance and reliability, for large deployments of the wiki.” Turns out a lot of customers with a smaller number of users wanted to be able to cluster the wiki, too. […]
OMG, OpenID — how do I do it?
Everyone seems to be going nuts for OpenID. The concept is still new, yet new sites pop up every day supporting the technology. There is plenty of chatter on various blogs and mailing list about integrating with OpenID, yet there are not really a lot of examples on how to do things as a best […]