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Codegeist II is here
It’s that time of the year again! Atlassian is kicking off Codegeist II, our second annual plugin competition. We’re putting up twice as much money this year — $20k in cash prizes — and have lined up a selection of fine products for your enjoyment. In general, the same rules as last year apply — […]
Case Study: Wiki Rx in the Biotech World
A few months ago we interviewed Mingyi Liu of GPC Biotech about how they’re using Confluence to record, share, and review preliminary experimental results. GPC Biotech, a company that develops new drugs to fight cancer, is a global organisation with employees spread out in three locations on two continents. About half of the company […]
Codegeist II: Geist in the Machine
Our plugin competition is back. More details on prizes, categories, last year’s entries, and more are on the Codegeist home page. Special thanks to our friends at The ServerSide, Jetbrains, Cenqua, and YourKit for donating prizes. Ready, steady, start hacking!
Dan Bricklin interviews Motorola’s Toby Redshaw on wiki use
Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc (the spreadsheet software that’s credited with turning the personal computer into a serious business tool in the early 1980s), recently posted a podcast interview with Toby Redshaw of Motorola. The two discuss the growing use of wikis inside Motorola, and some great points emerge about the growth of wiki adoption […]
Test Run for Jira Users
Test Run is a tool for developers to create new tests and test plans. A couple of days ago they released a new version that was modified specifically to help Jira users track bugs in Test Run. Jira is unique among other bug tracking systems in that the bug IDs it produces are not exclusively […]
Guest Bloggers Wanted: Jira for Agile Development
A Jira customer recently asked us if we had a best practices guide on the use of Jira for agile development. This is a project we had started but never completed, though it’s clearly a topic of interest. Here’s one blog post on the topic that Charles wrote about a year ago, and another one […]
Enterprise 2.0 Call for Papers
I just signed Atlassian up to be an exhibitor at the 2007 Enterprise 2.0 Conference (the event used to be called the Collaborative Technologies Conference). It takes place this year in Boston from June 18-21. They’re are looking for additional case studies from companies using wikis and other collaborative technologies. If you’re interested in getting […]
Web SSO versus Enterprise SSO
We launched Crowd, a single sign-on and identity management solution, a few months ago. There tends to be a lot of confusion around the SSO marketplace. There are many systems that range in price from free to six figures, some of which require vast amounts of energy to install and integrate and others that take […]
Crowd: 100% Riot Control, 10% Discount
Have you tried Crowd, our single sign-on authentication software yet? If so, please let us know what you think! Alternatively, if you’re still waiting to download it, here are just a few of the many reasons to try Crowd: With Crowd you can very easily… add new employees and set their permissions. subtract…err…remove or […]
Short Stories
Here are a few anecdotes from the last couple days that don’t lend themselves to a full blog each, but which I wanted to capture: A passenger on my train ride home one evening saw me proofreading the March Atlassian Newsletter. “Do you work with Atlassian?” That turned into a nice 15-minute conversation with Mike, […]
SVN Scheduled Maintenance Tonight
The Atlassian Developer Network SVN server is going offline tonight for about 3.5 hours for scheduled maintenance. The outage will last from 3am until 7.30am Pacific time. If you have any problems or questions, please contact me directly.
Lessons from Firefox: #7 – Shut up
This is the seventh in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts 1,2,3,4,5,6 of the series). Shut up Getting the most out of people, and winning their loyalty, is sometimes just a matter of listening to them– very carefully and all the […]
BusinessWeek’s Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs: Atlassian’s Mike and Scott
A nice one for the scrapbooks! Atlassian co-founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes made the cover of BusinessWeek.com as the top young entrepreneurs in technology. The article cites a VC who said “the company should be more focused on growth.” Mike’s response to that: when given an option between a focus on growth versus quality, […]
Migration to JPA: experts wanted
In the Confluence team, we’re investigating an upgrade of our data access layer of Hibernate 2 with Spring 1.1 to a shiny new OpenJPA and Spring 2.0 implementation. If you have experience with a migration of a large enterprise application from Hibernate to OpenJPA or another JPA implementation, please get in touch. We’re looking for […]
Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships
Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past few years we’ve given out over 2,500 non-profit and open source licenses, and though I don’t know the exact number, many have gone to JUGs. In addition to licenses, we’re […]