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Wikis in Education: The Book
A few weeks ago I hinted at something big that would be happening on the blog entitled Using Wikis in Education. Today, blogger Stewart Mader is announcing his book of the same name, Using Wikis in Education. The book contains 10 case studies written by teachers that describe how they’re using wikis to transform courses […]
Hotspot Wikis at Gilbane Boston
We’re attending the Gilbane Boston event next month. This year the conference organisers have a new “wiki hotspot” featuring wiki software folks like ourselves, which I suppose means that the traditional world of content management needs a good infusion of new blood. Not that a $1200 wiki will necessarily replace a $250,000 content management system, […]
Best Way to Set Up Your Wiki
After posting a blog on patterns of wiki adoption, I received a comment from someone with the question where do I start? Rather than post the comment, I thought I would restate the question as its own blog because I think it’s an issue that lots of people will have. First, there was the question […]
New Case Study Spotlights Confluence as an Extranet
Confluence as an interactive extranet?! Now we have a case study focused on it thanks to Red Ant, a website design and development firm. In this new case study see how Red Ant uses our wiki as an extranet that visually communicates complex design ideas to their clients. Here’s an excerpt: Do your clients know […]
Confluence installed for AppFuse 2.0 Documentation
From a Raible Designs blog about documentation: The last item on the AppFuse Roadmap for 2.0 M1 is setting up the documentation system. I’m still undecided on whether Confluence or DocBook is a better system to use. However, I am certain that using a wiki to document an open source project is the lowest barrier […]
Social Software and Libraries
An extensive and well-written overview of wikis can be found on this blog Group Presentation: Wikis. Here’s an excerpt mentioning Confluence, but the rest of the article is worth a read-through as it covers many topics related to wikis in a tone that’s easy to understand. Some things to consider when choosing a locally installed […]
CustomWare Gets Jira and Siebel CRM Talking
Atlassian Partner, CustomWare Asia Pacific, recently completed some great integration work. We were really interested (and impressed) to learn about it and thought you’d be, too. Here goes: CustomWare was hired by Polycom to integrate Jira, our issue tracker, directly into an existing CRM and help-desk system from Siebel. More specifically, with every Siebel transaction, […]
UWC Update
We last mentioned the Universal Wiki Converter back in August, and I’m here to check in with a report from the field. The Universal Wiki Converter was, as we hoped, extremely popular. We’ve seen a lot of interest since we published it. We started with three conversion formats (TWiki, PMWIki and DokuWiki) and we just […]
Order Page Optimisations
Yesterday I came across a discussion spotlighting Atlassian’s pricing and order forms. Mike spoke about transparency and pricing on Robert Scoble’s ScobleShow CEO Talk and that got people chatting. At Atlassian, we don’t have a ‘sales’ team. The most efficient way to order our products is online. When you order, instead of checking a box […]
A day with Confluence
Inspired by Tom Coates’ “clean your flat in sixty seconds…” I’ve decided that surely a lot of people would love to take a peek into the day to day life of the Confluence developers here at Atlassian. It’s amazing what we can get done in 74 seconds. How does a day at your company look […]
How to Get Your Co-Workers to Use a Wiki
We receive emails now and again from new customers who ask us to recommend strategies for rolling out Confluence to their users. User adoption can be a problem with just about any new technology, even if it’s one as simple as a wiki. You know wikis can improve collaboration, productivity and communication, but how do […]
Reading Resources from a JAR for Unit-Tests
In order to verify the issue described yesterday, we obviously had to test it first. Only after writing a test that fails first and succeeds after changing the code, we can be sure that we found and fixed the actual problem. Another advantage of the test is that it allows you to debug the problem […]
Atlassian on ScobleShow CEO Talk — Watch
Mike Cannon-Brookes and Jonathan Nolen recently visited Robert Scoble at his PodTech offices in Menlo Park. This is part one of two (part two is TBA) in which Mike and Jonathan discuss wikis, Confluence and Atlassian with Robert for his new podcast video series, ScobleShow CEO Talk. Watch the video here.
Lost in translation
I had to update our license library to add new license types when I came across an interesting problem. Running in development mode against the source of atlassian-extras (which contains our license logic), everything worked just fine. Time to run the tests again, tag and create the jar. Unfortunately when testing the license creation on […]
Jiranemo!
(That’s pronounced like geronimo.) I’ve been playing with a way to ensure that the Jira tickets that get made for rMake have the correct information associated with them. To that end, I developed a python SOAP client for Jira, called pyjira. I also created a front end, called jiranemo (good for plunging into the dark […]