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Try Some GreenPepper with that Agile Development
Last week, Andre with Pyxis demonstrated their GreenPepper software for myself and Brendan (the only Atlassians in California brave—or stupid—enough for an 8am WebEx). Over several years of consulting and systems integration for Agile developers, Pyxis, an Atlassian partner, concluded that many Agile development applications contain more features than required, i.e., features developers never touch. […]
Changes to plugin storage in Confluence 2.3
Confluence 2.3’s major new feature was Massive, the Confluence clustering solution. However, turning Confluence into a clustered app introduced some fairly fundamental changes into our architecture. For example, since there may be many, separate Confluence Massive nodes on physically separated servers, we can no longer use the filesystem for storage and must instead push all […]
Jira and Confluence: Finalists for Jolt Awards
Good news travels fast. When the finalists for the 17th annual Jolt awards were announced, we were notified by the judges. Shortly thereafter, I received congrat emails from several bloggers. If you didn’t see the news, both Jira and Confluence have been selected as finalists for the awards. From the email we received from the […]
Jira 3.7.2 Released
With more than 30 bug fixes and improvements, Jira 3.7.2 recently released. If you’re already using version 3.7 or 3.7.1, we strongly recommend upgrading. This latest version contains a fix to a critical search indexing issue, which affects the accuracy of statistics and searches. If you haven’t upgraded to Jira 3.7.x, did you know 3.7 […]
Business Development Wikis
James at Saikore, one of our reseller partners, has developed a fully-functional Business Development wiki on Confluence. Basically, it’s an example of another way companies can utilize a wiki. Stealing some verbiage from Saikore’s blog, functionality featured in the site includes: Standard Wiki features, such as simple editing, page history, page notifications etc. Enterprise Wiki […]
Wiki Transformed – A New Case Study
Our latest Confluence case study shares some thinking behind how Night Kitchen Interactive, a small design firm and Atlassian Partner, redesigns Confluence into stellar websites, (e.g. Constitution Day wiki, which was themed using Adaptavist’s Builder plugin). Here’s a tiny excerpt: How did you design the Constitution Day wiki for user-contributed content? We realized early on […]
Universal Wiki Converter Updates
“We really like Confluence, but we started with this other wiki and have a plethora of existing content laying around. Can you help us convert it?” That’s a a frequent request we’ve heard from both prospective and existing Confluence customers. So, we developed a Universal Wiki Converter. The UWC was updated today with a new […]
Updating the Stack – Migrating from WebWork 1.4 to 2.2.4
With a recent release of Crowd, our team decided to upgrade the WebWork 1.4 stack to version 2.2.4 which as of now is the most recent release. When we originally sat down to write Crowd (previously IDX), we evaluated a variety of technologies and ended up picking version 1.4 because of the stability offered by […]
Wiki use on the rise at USA’s fastest growing companies
A new study conducted by the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth’s Center for Marketing Research confirms the trend I’ve seen especially in the past year – that as soon as people and organizations understand the wiki and its potential, it becomes an indispensable tool. The survey looked at members of the INC 500, a list of […]
Your Vote on a Read/Write Intranet
Rod Boothby, Innovation Creators blogger, writes that organisations should consider implementing a Read/Write Intranet, which is precisely what many of our customers have done using Confluence. We also have a case study of how Confluence customer, RedAnt, uses a wiki as their extranet. Before working at Atlassian, my previous employers’ intranets were collections of file […]
New Case Study Highlights Constitution Day Wiki
Did you know the Constitution Day site is actually Confluence in disguise? We’ve blogged about it before, but now you can read all the details about this unique instance of our wiki software. The Constitution Day wiki received 50,000 hits per day at its peak and today continues to be a resource where people can […]
Wikis Reviewed
Just about everything in Confluence shows polish and attention to detail. You can instantly create pages in the designated space and edit with standard wiki markup code or a rich-text editor. Linking to other pages is simple, and the system ensures links don’t break if you reorganize pages into a different hierarchy. Further, categorizing pages […]
Javablogs – my first 6 weeks
So when I came to Atlassian I didn’t know what to expect. First day, I was introduced to the Javablogs source code on IDEA, running on Resin and Tomcat. For most of you, this is probably a walk in the park – but coming from a “corporate” background where Websphere is the only application server […]
Linden Lab Selects Atlassian Jira for New ‘Second Life’ Viewer Open Source Project
Linden Lab, makers of the virtual reality game Second Life, called us late last week to tell us they wanted to use Jira as their community issue tracker for their new open source ‘Viewer’ project. We were thrilled to hear it. While most Jira customers use the application for bug tracking, many, including Linden Lab, […]
Confluence at IBM Redbooks
Just a quick blog mention and interesting customer example: IBM is deploying wikis both internally and externally, and point the way to some interesting uses for a wiki for their development community. I also saw that IBM are also using a wiki to build new redbooks, a fine thing, as Tesha wiki at SAP would […]