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Breaking the Build: agile, continuous integration, and the Light

This guest post from Kate Carruthers is a companion to the dev-oriented post about building the Bamboo plugin, which was published last week. Kate has worked in software development and web since the dark ages. In more recent times she’s been a scrum coach and agile project manager. She recently saw the Light and though it would be […]

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Jira 5.2 deep dive: prepare for the day ahead

Quick – what did you work on yesterday, and what’s at the top of your list for today? If you can’t form an intelligent answer until you’ve finished your first cup of coffee, Jira’s new system filters are here to save your day. Use these new filters to manage your morning: My Open Issues – […]

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Tips and Tricks on How to Succeed as a Woman in Tech

Key Takeaways from Atlassian’s Inaugural Girl Geek Event Two weeks ago we hosted our very first Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner. Typically these events feature a series of lightning talks by several of the hosting company’s female engineers on a range of topics from new coding tricks to product demos. But we held event brainstorming […]

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Marketplace Monday: eazyBI Reporting and Charts Plugin for Jira

Here at Atlassian, we’re particularly stoked about this week’s Marketplace Monday add-on. Why? It offers one of the most intuitive and powerful user experiences for reporting and charting Jira data that we’ve seen. EazyBI began as a web-based business intelligence tool for users tired of paying high prices for hard-to-use enterprise BI software. Enter eazyBI. […]

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Shedding Light on Build Breakages

I’ve been following Mark Pesce on Twitter ever since I watched his brilliant closing keynote at Web Directions South in 2008. A few months ago he started hinting at a #sekritproject in his tweets. I had no idea what it was back then but I didn’t have to wait long to find out. He unveiled […]

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GreenHopper Tip of the Month: How Atlassian uses Quick Filters

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. How the Interactive team at Atlassian uses Quick Filters The Interactive team at Atlassian manages the Atlassian website, Atlassian University, videos and various design […]

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What are people saying about Jira 5.2?

It’s been just over a week since we released Jira 5.2, and teams everywhere are unlocking the power of Jira’s search. Not only do new system filters help you prepare for the day ahead, but the new instant search bar makes it faster than ever to find elusive issues. What’s the word on the street? […]

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Instantly Access Your Important Jira Notifications In Confluence WorkBox

Have you ever convinced yourself that you can’t be in two places at once? Well, think again. The latest release of Jira makes it possible to view and take action on all your important notifications from your project tracker, without leaving Confluence. There’s never been a better time to trade your inbox for WorkBox. Switching contexts wastes your time If […]

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Shutting down Maven 1 repositories on maven.atlassian.com

Recently, you may have noticed some intermittent problems with https://maven.atlassian.com, Atlassian’s public maven server.  This server provides all the Java libraries and resources needed by developers to create add-ons and build the source distributions for Atlassian products. The intermittent problems on the server resulted in several instances of unscheduled downtime and may have prevented some developers […]

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Fisheye and Crucible 2.9 Released: Simplified Administration, Stronger Jira Integration

Today we are pleased to announce the latest release of Fisheye and Crucible. Fisheye and Crucible give agile teams a powerful way to browse, search, share and review source code. Tight integration with the Jira issue tracker gives teams traceability between issues, stories and source, regardless of your source code management system(s) – Git, Subversion, CVS, […]

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Jira Tip of the Month – 3 ways to keep teams connected

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian’s tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. They say no man is an island. While you may not take off your headphones or let your fingers leave the […]

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Go Extra-Agile – Customize Automated Test Suites on the Fly

Making releases a “non-event” is one of the goals many teams aspire to when they adopt agile development practices.  That might mean releasing several times daily, or (more likely) at the end of each iteration. Either way, most teams eventually normalize on some flavor of continuous delivery. A common flavor is to build the code […]

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Atlassian’s Inaugural Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner is Finally Here!

A few weeks ago we announced that Atlassian is hosting its first-ever Bay Area Girl Geek Dinner.  Well, the night has finally arrived and we couldn’t be more excited! The swag has been ordered, the caterers are set and our panelists are primed to talk about some of the most controversial gender-related topics in tech. Nearly […]

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Marketplace Monday: Bob Swift’s Plugins for Confluence, a Highlight Reel

Each week, Marketplace Monday profiles one (or more!) great add-ons available in the Atlassian Marketplace–where you can try and buy more than a thousand add-ons for Atlassian products. Every time we approve a new add-on on the Atlassian Marketplace, the Ecosystem team celebrates. We launched the Marketpalce with 59 add-ons available in the Marketplace, so when […]

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Add some strength to your Backbone

In Jira we’ve been getting pretty excited about Backbone.js. There are a lot of things we love, too numerous to mention here. But there are a couple of things I want that Backbone doesn’t give us. First, a backbone model might look like this: [cc lang=’javascript’ line_numbers=’false’] var model = new Backbone.Model(); [/cc] That’s it. What attributes […]