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CMS: Sticking with the Tried & True
Here’s an excerpt from an interesting article from University Business Magazine about colleges and universities having to choose between open source versus commercial products, esp. in the United States. Larry Bouthillier of Harvard Business School is cited: Open source is also widely popular in U.S. higher education, but IHE technology professionals are choosy about where […]
Giant Knife Version 1.0
Now here is a tool that will fix everything! (Not so sure about fixing the software bugs though.) And as the original site says: Wenger wants you to do one thing: throw out your old knives. Actually, it wants you to do several things: throw out your bike tools, your toiletries, your laser pointer and […]
Atlassian in a City Near You
Laurel just blogged about our upcoming User Conference sponsored by IntelliObjects taking place in Virginia. In addition, you can find us sponsoring, demoing, and generally wandering the floors at a number of other upcoming events: The first Office 2.0 Conference is taking place in San Francisco, October 11-12. We’re sponsoring and Atlassian co-founder and CEO […]
Mission Atlassian
The end of financial year is a good opportunity to celebrate team success. This year we did so with an adventure race around Sydney, solving clues in teams and having a great deal of fun along the way. See the fabulous introductory video that greeted staff as they came in that morning, or all photos […]
Atlassian User Group to Meet in September
Mark your calendars for a new Atlassian User Group meeting! Meet our customers, developers, and people interested in Jira and/or Confluence. Also learn how Jira and Confluence can work in an Agile environment. Get an overview of Atlassian development, our Developer Network, and see demos of some new products. Here are the essentials: When: Tuesday, […]
Confluence for Non-Profit
From the Sacramento Java Users Group blog: At the last SACJUG meeting we debated over what wiki/content management system to use and eventually settled on Confluence. The feeling was as a java users group we needed to use a Java based tool. I volunteered to see if they’d grant a license since my company is […]
Running Confluence automatically on OS X
We keep all our household information in Confluence (bills, expenses, etc.), so the system needs to be available at all times to both of us on the network. Confluence got personal with the release of Confluence 2.2. That release gave each user expanded capabilities for creating personal spaces. But here’s a cool blog about using […]
Atlassian Taking On the World
Zoli Erdos posted a brief mention about Atlassian Taking On the World: I’ve recently had a chance to meet Mike and Jonathan in Atlassian’s San Francisco offices, and frankly was blown away by their enthusiasm, the company’s growth, but most importantly by a demo of Confluence, the market-leading enterprise wiki. We had an interesting and […]
Confluence vs. Basecamp
Comparing Confluence with Basecamp is interesting because, as the blogger points out, while the two product’s features overlap somewhat, they really serve two different needs. MediaWiki and Twiki are also mentioned in this review that can be found on Code Intensity: Confluence is a superb wiki! I’ve used several other wikis over the last year […]
Jira, the New Required Skill!
A mate of ours first brought it to our attention — Jira, our issue tracker, is the new requested “be familiar with” or “have expertise with” program. He forwarded along a job posting seeking candidates with Jira experience. Being intrigued, I Googled the world of job postings myself. Among the required skills set of Java, […]
By any other name: Action Aliasing in Jira
By specifying as ‘alias’ the name of an existing action (in actions.xml), you can override default Jira behaviour. – The Jira Plugin docs I first read that line in our docs more than a year ago, and have seen it many times since, but I never really understood how powerful this actually was. When I […]
Atlassian on YouTube at Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Ceremony
Check out this short clip of Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes being interviewed at the Ernest & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year Award ceremony on YouTube (we’ve asked E&Y for the full video, we’ll post that if we can get it). The press release about the award is here.
Wikis, Access Control, Calendars
In the spirit of being transparent, here’s a library managers blog with a good discussion about Confluence, other wikis, and pricing… Yes, [Confluence is] not free, but we’ve found that it’s well worth the price and support is extremely good. They use their Issue tracking system to track bugs, enhancements, support requests, and they monitor […]
Using Wikis in Education
A short while ago, Stewart Mader interviewed a couple of us Atlassian folks for his blog, Using Wikis in Education. The interview, conducted via Campfire (very cool product), is now available here.
Cenqua and Jira
While visiting our Sydney office this week, I had some time to grab a coffee with with Pete Moore, one of the founders of Cenqua, and Bruce, his terrier (who spent his time charming everyone that walked past us in the café). We chatted about how Cenqua’s development team use Jira for tracking software issues. […]