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Six Days in a Leaky Boat
“It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain”, so sang the Divinyls. I can’t quite remember what the song was about, but they were probably singing about Ajax. A plethora of libraries in the last year has meant it’s never been easier to take in the Ajax plunge, and we decided to take on YUI […]
US Daylight Savings changes in 2007
In 2007, the US has planned a change to it’s daylight savings time schedule. This may cause problems with Java applications (such as Jira and Confluence) that rely on dates and times. The effect of this will be that times reported in Jira or Confluence may be 1 hour off the real time for certain […]
Bamboo 1.0 CI Server Released
Today we officially released Bamboo 1.0, our server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. By automating the software build process and providing instant notification of problems with the software’s code, Bamboo helps development teams reduce project risk, improve productivity and enhance software quality. We put our own twist […]
Bamboo Saves Jira a Headache
Last Friday a code check-in was made that made Jira functional tests fail only in Standard and Professional editions. If it was not for Bamboo, we would not have picked that up until midnight on Friday (for a while we have had a nightly build that does a lot of automated testing). Which means that […]
Bamboo 1.0 Released
The Bamboo team is proud to announce the launch of Bamboo 1.0, Atlassian’s Continuous Integration and Build Telemetry Server. After much blood, sweat and beers tears, 1.0 is out the door! You can take it for a spin from our website. Continuous Integration Made Simple We built Bamboo with simplicity in mind and it comes […]
Integrating Crowd with Apache and Subversion
Internally we have started migrating most of our applications to use Crowd as a central location for authentication and authorization information along with single sign-on (SSO). One of the applications that had been escaping us was getting Subversion integrated — but this has all changed. We happy to say that Crowd can now be integrated […]
How’s Wikipatterns.com doing?
Since announcing Wikipatterns on Wednesday, contributors have added 8 new patterns, growing from 29 to 37 patterns! Traffic on the site has tripled every day. The site has also gotten a number of blog mentions, and we’re hearing from people that it’s a very worthwhile project, especially since it benefits everyone. Some examples: Adrian Sutton […]
Portlets and Confluence
Recently, I was charged with the task of creating a portlet that would interact with Confluence. The idea was to see how difficult it is, to make a Proof of Concept (ideally, something useful), and to generate a bunch of documentation about the process. So how difficult was it? Not so bad, given that I […]
Using XMLTask for Maven and Ant
I just thought I should share this great little gem I stumbled across last week when I was faced with this Crowd Issue. After a few quick searches on Google I came across this great little Ant library, XMLTask. After downloading the jar and having a quick read of the great example docs, I had […]
Do your math homework in Confluence
Me, I pretty much hated math in high school. But apparently lots of other people really like it. In fact, they like math so much that they want to put it in Confluence. Formulae, equations, diagrams, you name it. This is has been one of our more popular requests for a while. I guess it […]
Introducing Wikipatterns.com
The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others not so much. How did you get everyone in your community (company, department, or broader community) to use a […]
Introducing Wikipatterns.com
The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have been extremely effective at getting mass participation on their wikis, others not so much. How did you get everyone in your community (company, department, or broader community) to use a […]
Preventing Concurrent Operations
Some operations you don’t want to run concurrently for various reasons. Here’s a simple technique for preventing them.
Jakob Nielsen blasts wiki as over-hyped
In his annual 10 Best-Designed Intranets list, Jakob Nielsen makes two very concerning statements. First, he argues for an “editorial approach
Incubator progress pushed forward by Atlassian Bamboo
I just came across this blog from a couple weeks ago. From the Wicket Diary blog, you can follow the links to the Bamboo project: In the mean time we have our own server (kindly provided by Servoy) provide us with a confluence and Jira setup for Wicket Stuff, and best of all: Bamboo for […]