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Tejus’ posted this comparison of issue trackers blog: I think Atlassian’s Jira is far and away the best issue tracker that I’ve ever used. There might be better ones out there, but I have yet to see them. Jira is immensly customizable, the interface is relatively intuitive and streamlined, and it has many built in […]
What Do You Need to Start a New e-Business?
From Priit Vaikmaa’s blog entitled What do you need to start a new e-business? Web Based Project Management Software (Issue management + WIKI). For example Jira and Confluence Version Control System (SVN). Subversion Development Server Environment to store new code, manage project Staging Server to test everything you code Back Up MySQL databases Read the […]
Survey Results: Wikis in the Enterprise
A few months ago I blogged about Tim Bartel’s study of wikis in the enterprise. He has finished his report and published a sample of the results. For more details, read Tim’s blog.
Jira on Display
Our feature tour for Jira had not been up to par for a long time. But, happily, we’re able to announce that the revised Jira Feature Tour is live and ready for browsing. This updated tour — with over a dozen sections and many times that number of feature descriptions in each section — should […]
Traditional Website or Wiki Web-Publishing?
First things first, click here. If you’re not too familiar with wikis, you’d probably assume you just viewed a typical ol’ website. If you are familiar with wikis, you might have an inkling that this is one. The truth is that this website is, indeed, a wonderful example of Confluence (our wiki) re-skinned.
What’s Up with Using Wikis in Education?
Months ago, after I noticed that an announcement about a new release of Confluence had been picked up on Using Wikis in Education, Stewart Mader and I started a conversation that continues to this day. Since then, we’ve been able to introduce Stewart to a few of our academic wiki customers to help him with […]
Australian Web 2.0 and more
From Rex Chung an a blog entitled Australian Web 2.0 and more Atlassian These guys are most well known in the Java community. Their bug tracking system, Jira, is used in most open source Java projects and is very popular across the world. Their wiki software, Confluence, is also very popular and is a leader […]
A Culture of Transparency
From LiVEJOURNAL, a blog entitled A Culture of Transparency, a really good discussion of the value of (and really, the need for) transparency in business. We discuss current problems on a mailing list. We post code reviews on a newsgroup. We skype with our offshore partners. Best of all, we use Confluence, a wiki-based system […]
Atlassian User Group Roundup
The first Atlassian User Group (AUG) meeting in Virginia this week was a tremendous success. Wil Anderson and I flew in from San Francisco on Monday night, and Scott arrived that night from Sydney (by way of Kuala Lumpur and then London). The meeting was held Tuesday evening at a lovely hotel in Falls Church […]
Creating an Online Campus
We’ll be demoing Confluence in Worcester, MA (pronounced “wooster” for all the non-Bay Staters) next week at the HigherEd Symposium’s Creating an Online Campus. In addition, Stewart Mader, blogger at Using Wikis in Education, will be speaking at the event. If you’re in the area, please stop by and say hi.
Startup Spotlight: Atlassian
A quick blog mention from Yoick: Hightechwire about Atlassian: The Deal: Intense customer focus from day one, passionate founders and a quality development team.
Atlassian User Group Roundup
The first Atlassian User Group (AUG) meeting in Virginia this week was a tremendous success. Wil Anderson and I flew in from San Francisco on Monday night, and Scott arrived that night from Sydney (by way of Kuala Lumpur and then London). The meeting was held Tuesday evening at a lovely hotel in Falls Church […]
Blog on the Free Confluence Personal Wiki
“Confluence is a super-wiki application that uses a database backend. Instructions are provided to setup Confluence with various open-source and commercial databases. It talked to my PostgreSQL server with no problem.” Thanks Tom McQueeny for plugging the free personal license of Confluence. Glad you blogged candidly about our wiki. We always interested in hearing what […]
Veni Vidi Wiki
Blaugh.com, “the (un)official comic of the blogosphere.” Nice one!
Good Fences Make Aloof Neighbours
In an enterprise environment, where every contributor to the wiki is identifiable, and every change reversible, what value remains in restricting edit rights a priori?