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Bamboo and Spring CI Build
James Governor’s blog pointed out this blog by the team at Interface 21. Thanks for the great words about Bamboo! In about 10 minutes we had the Spring CI build up and running. This might not sound like much, but due to its size Spring doesn’t play nicely with some build servers. So you can […]
Searching the Confluence Plugin Library
I added a new feature to the Confluence plugin library: searching! You can now list, filter, sort and search all of the plugins in the Confluence Plugin Repository. This is the same list that Confluence admins will see when they visit the Confluence Repository Client in the software to install new plugins. You can filter […]
IBM ShortCuts Podcast – Cut #24: How to structure a wiki
In Episode #24 of IBM ShortCuts Podcast Luis Suarez, a fellow Social Media Collective member, gives his top 5 tips for structuring a successful wiki: Have a welcome page Make a shared calendar Put together a who’s who page of team members Choose three topics for discussion/collaboration Don’t forget to add a section for resources […]
Get your Wikipatterns button!
Now you can stylishly tell everyone about your favorite wiki resource – add a Wikipatterns button to your blog, website, or wiki! Buttons come in three sizes – Large: 120×80 pixels, Standard: 88×31 pixels, and Chicklet: 80×15 pixels. Displaying a button is a great way to let others know about Wikipatterns, and help them find […]
Codegeist II: Release Early, release often
One of the most valuable things that I learned from last year’s Codegeist competition is that openness wins. Some of our competitors got their plugins working and put them up for download in the entries section very early in the contest. Others waited until the last possible minute to submit their work. I’m not sure […]
4 more days in a leaky boat
Random Mortal Combat quote: Sonya Blade: A handful of people on a leaky boat are gonna save the world? Lord Rayden: Exactly. Another month and more memory problems for one of our products. “Let mortal combat begin” The Jira 1.5 JVM (and more recently 1.6 as well) functional tests started running out of memory last […]
Jira Blogs
A few Jira-related blogs came across the radar today: Presenting at JA-SIG Summer ’07 Patrick Berry is giving two presentations at JA-SIG, one on Rails Development and the other on Jira: As technology workers and managers we often have more things to do than we have time, so we are constantly on the lookout for […]
Larry Cannell of Collaboration Loop reviews Wikipatterns
Larry Cannell of Collaboration Loop writes about Wikipatterns, and makes some great points about the site’s role as a guide for the regular wiki user. He says: “In short, this is an incredible resource and goes a long way to bridge the gap that sits between IT departments and the business units they support…Do you […]
How much can Enterprise 2.0 change the way we work?
Joe McKendrick writes about this on the FASTForward blog, and points out that Andrew McAfee of Harvard and Tom Davenport of Babson are agreeing to disagree. The debate is over how so-called enterprise 2.0 technologies will impact the world’d workforce. Enterprise 2.0 enthusiasts like to discuss how the new technologies disrupt traditional business hierarchies. Davenport […]
Thinking about information as a steady stream of content
Stowe Boyd blogs about whether we’re faced with information overload, and that the answer depends on how you approach information — focus or flow. He makes the case that if you try to focus too much you’ll feel overloaded, but if you approach information as a constant stream you can quickly learn to ignore what’s […]
Codegeist Dev Chats
‘Tis the season of Codegeist, and that means lots of people jumping in to new coding projects. And that inevitably means lots of questions. So to make sure that you get lots of answers, we’re going to be holding developer chats where you can ask us about plugin development, code questions, or anything else that […]
Getting Better Statistics about Your Wiki
I got a call today from a customer who asked how he can get additional statistics from Confluence. Is there a plugin that gives data on most popular wiki pages, most active users, what pages do new users visit first, etc.? Two thoughts here: First, a new Activity Tracking plugin shipped with Confluence 2.3, which […]
Building the right kind of wiki communities for success
Chris Taylor of Business 2.0 takes a look at why experiments like the LA Times Wikitorial, A Million Penguins book project, and Amazon’s Amapedia product review wiki haven’t become the major successes their creators had hoped they would be. (In Amapedia’s case, it’s only been around a short time, and may take more time to […]
Survey about wiki habits
Eugene Eric Kim, co-founder of the collaboration consulting firm Blue Oxen Associates and active member of the wiki community, is working on a study of wiki interoperability. He’s published a survey about users’ wiki habits, focusing primarily on people who regularly use more than one wiki. It should take about 10 minutes to complete. If […]
Wikipatterns has a new look!
Wikipatterns has a new look! We just launched a new design for Wikipatterns with an organic theme that emphasizes growing your wiki. With the addition of the theme, the site is much less technical looking, and I’m hoping this makes it more inviting for non-technical users. Speaking of users and site activity, there are now […]