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Introducing Crowd
A few months ago, I blogged about the acquisition of Authentisoft and their product IDX. Three months later, we’re happy to announce that IDX is now available as an Atlassian product, Crowd. Justen Stepka, co-founder at Authentisoft and lead developer on Crowd, blogged about it here, too. User management is a problem that plagues just […]
Our Vote for Best Out of Office Auto Reply
From an email one of our Customer Advocates received today: I am currently out of the office, returning 18 December 2006. I may be reached via email/Jira on 14 Dec and will deal with all other queries via Jira on my return.
Atlassian makes available Crowd
I am excited to announce that after three months of working with some of the greatest people to transition Authentisoft into Atlassian, Crowd is now available for download. Crowd seamless provides integrated logins across Jira, Confluence and the upcoming Bamboo products, as well as other enterprise applications like Fisheye and Jive’s Forums and Wildfire. Crowd […]
Save Fuel, Use Jira & Confluence
Great quote from the folks at CarbonPlanet about Jira and Confluence: Carbon Planet is a very distributed organisation. The only way we can manage that, and be true to our principles of maximum CO2 emissions reductions, is to use web-based collaboration systems such as Jira and Confluence by Atlassian for issue tracking and data sharing. […]
European User Groups Next Week
Just a reminder, our European user group meetings kick off next week. London on 12 December Antwerp on 13 December Karlsruhe on 18 December If you want to attend, click on the links above to RSVP. They’re a great way to meet and hear from other Atlassian customers on what they’re doing with Jira and […]
Documentation Tools
There have been a few blog posts recently that mention Confluence on the topic of using wikis for documentation. For anyone currently exploring using a wiki for documentation, you might start with one of these blogs: There’s Kola Oyedeji’s Coolskool blog, called Using Wikis for Documentation. On Ludovic’s weblog there is a post about Confluence […]
Design Group Session 1 Went Off!
Being a good developer requires continual learning. Recently, Atlassian held the first session of Design Group. A study session on object-oriented software design, the purpose of Design Group is to remove pesky distractions like deadlines and users so we can concentrate on improving the design of the software we make. In this first session, we […]
A subtle ploy
One of the tricky parts of introducing a wiki into an organisation is getting people in the habit of using it. Here’s one way Atlassian promoted the wiki internally.
Another tool in the toolbox
Running a large, public instance of Confluence can be a challenge in one respect: dealing with spam. Spammers are constantly looking for any indexed site from which they can squeeze another ounce of Google-juice. We’ve been dealing with this problem for a while. We released the CAPTCHA feature for Confluence back in 2.2. And we […]
Jira Spam update: blacklists, SQL, utilities
For those of you maintaining a public Jira instance, who are suffering from the recent bout of comment spam.. I’ve created a Confluence space for collaboration on solutions to this, as well as a Subversion repository for utilities: http://svn.atlassian.com/svn/public/contrib/jira/spamfighting/ Currently this contains: Shell scripts for detecting comment or trackback spam as it happens, and notifying […]
Love Grows in Collaboration
The Sydney Morning Herald has just covered our Jira case study about Linden Lab, the company behind Second Life. Jira is designed to be user-configurable and so applicable to projects as diverse as Linden Lab’s love machine, or more prosaic tasks such as recruitment. “Recruitment is not often thought of as a workflow,” Mr Cannon-Brookes […]
Opacity css seems to kill performance in Firefox 2 under Linux
So I was working on the charting plugins new search request view popup where, when we popup the chart, we try to be all sexy and fade the background to a slightly transparent black that makes the popup look very modal. The good news is that it looks very swank, the bad news is that […]
Ajax bug in Opera 9 and 9.0.1, fixed in 9.0.2
In my adventures with the new charting plugin search request view I discovered a nasty little bug yesterday. If you are making an Ajax request and the result of that request is a redirect Opera 9 and 9.0.1 will not automatically follow the redirect and fill the result with the contents of the redirected request. […]
The Confluence Development Team
From left to right: Don, Sam, Dave, Matt, Chris, Tom, Charles, Agnes and Jens. Thanks to the guys from Tangosol for the t-shirts!
Maven 1 repository changes
Maven 1 has recently started to produce a lot of 301 errors (after attempting to download certain dependencies) when building a project with a clean local repository. The reason for this is that the public Maven 1 repository is being moved to http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven from http://www.ibiblio.org/maven. Maven 1 doesn’t understand redirects and therefore reports a 301 […]