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Confluence Translations Now Available
We’re excited to announce that professional internationalisations of Confluence, in German and French, are now available for download. Please visit our Translations space for more details and to download. Soon we will be adding additional internationalisations for Jira. We currently have beta versions of the Jira translations available via a QA instance for review; if […]
Crowd Connects Web Apps, LDAP
Crowd 1.0, our single sign-on authentication software, was launched today. The full press release is here. For this release, I decided to do a short interview with Justen Stepka, the lead developer of Crowd. (I had wanted to publish the interview as an MP3 audio file, but my first podcast contained way too much background […]
Jira Voters and Watchers plugin
Just a quick note to let you know that I upgraded the Jira Voters and Watchers plugin so that it is now compatible with Jira 3.7 (and hopefully 3.8 when it comes out). Voters and Watchers adds some custom fields that make it easier to vote on issues in bulk, and shows you who else […]
“Filling the Information Void”
Cool use case for Confluence discussed here. Confluence seems to be the perfect solution to a problem I’ve had in managing certain kinds of customer and company information…I can create a ‘home’ page for each customer, new pages for each of their computers/systems, pages for repair notes and site visits, etc. So far, it’s just […]
Letters from the U.K. (how one customer is using Jira and Confluence)
One of our Customer Advocates received this email from a Jira and Confluence customer in the U.K. It reads like two great mini case studies, so we asked for permission to blog about it (we were told ‘yes’ provided that we didn’t include the company’s name per their corporate PR policy). I added the links […]
Announcing Confluence Hosted
I’m happy to report that today Atlassian launched Confluence Hosted, an exciting new way for more people to use the world’s most popular enterprise wiki. Confluence Hosted allows companies to sign-up and immediately begin using the service, without need for the lengthy deployment cycles demanded by most internal IT organizations; bypass the installation, testing, distribution, […]
New Hosted Version of Atlassian Confluence Now Available
Today we have announced the release of Confluence Hosted, a new hosted service to make wiki-based collaboration more accessible for small, mid, or large organisations or groups with limited IT resources. Special thanks goes out to everyone who has signed up for an early beta and helped us to work out the kinks. The hosted […]
Keep 'em clean, boys.
On Tuesday, I was invited to observe the inaugural Jira process meeting, in which the Jira development team discussed various ways they could improve the way they produce software.
OpenID-enabled Confluence
Atlassian ID has become the new Atlassian Account. Read more about it here. With the recent press covering big companies adopting OpenID, I decided to see what the fuss was about, and to take it a step further, modify Confluence to be an OpenID consumer. With some time to kill on a Saturday, I finished […]
Using collective intelligence and the wiki to improve how you work, as you work
Jim McGee writes about Alan Kay’s recent interview by CIO Insight magazine, in which he discusses what isn’t right about personal computing and how we should change our thinking for the next generation of computing. From the interview, entitled Alan Kay: The PC Must be Revamped–Now: “Engelbart, right from his very first proposal to ARPA […]
Atlassian at Under the Radar
Catch us at Under the Radar next month. Under the Radar is a conference featuring start ups talking about their business models, and this particular one is focused on Office 2.0. We’re attending as a “Graduate Circle” sponsor. Each of the Graduate Circle sponsoring companies is also given a 5 minute speaking slot, but we’ve […]
Confluence 2.4 – Baby Steps
We just knew that for us, eight months was far too much time between drinks. Following the advice of the Extreme Programmers, we decided to turn the knobs up to eleven and see what happened. If a short release cycle was a good idea, how about a really short release cycle? Say… six weeks of development?
Northern Voice 2007
I’ll be spending the weekend at Northern Voice 2007, in Vancouver, billed as “Canada’s blogging conference.” Here’s how the organizers describe it: “In 2005, the organizers of Canada’s first weblogging conference put on an event that was inexpensive, informal, and accessible to techies and newbies alike. From those humble beginnings Northern Voice has been transformed […]
What’s my role in Wikipatterns.com?
As Atlassian’s wiki evangelist, one of my main projects was launching Wikipatterns.com and helping it grow into a worthwhile, valuable resource for all wiki users. But what exactly is my role on the site? In every other wiki I’ve set up, I’ve been the sole champion or one of a small group of champions, and […]
Auto-linking interesting text in support cases
A lot of technical support work is basically pattern-matching, and memorizing. You see a stacktrace, remember vaguely having seen it before, and hunt around until you find the earlier case. Here is a typical example, with MySQL breaking with a weird “Data too long for column” error: To automate the process of “remembering and looking […]