Browse the blog
Filters
New Jira Plugin – Voters and Watchers
I took a couple of days last week and knocked up a new Jira plugin that makes it easier to deal with voting, the Voters and Watchers Plugin. This plugin consists of three custom fields: The View Voters custom field – this field allows you to view all of the users who have voted for […]
Atlassian Founders Both Named Eastern Region Young Entrepreneur Of The Year
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar have received top honours at the Ernst & Young Eastern Region Young Entrepreneur Of The Year awards.
Benefits of Wikis
The recommended Wiki (Confluence by Atlassian in this case), allows for Wikis within a Wiki (Spaces) so that multiple entities such as teams, departments or organizations can be served within one Wiki with collaboration amongst the entities still possible. Read the complete blog entry at Transforming Business Weblog: Benefits of Wikis. The full blog, in […]
Need to convert a wiki to Confluence? Now there is help!
Announcing the Universal Wiki Converter! A frequent request we’ve heard from both prospective and existing Confluence customers is along the lines of, “We really like Confluence, but we started with this other wiki and have a plethora of existing content laying around. Can you help us convert it?” Other people had contributed several content converters […]
Jira Issue Tracking Meets Tagging
From the AnyWare Development Consulting blog, a really interesting suggestion for grouping tasks in Jira by tagging that other Jira users may want to check out. Component field settings ARE tagging but with the wrong name. I’m going to set up “components” (in Jira parlance) for “Must have”, “Very desirable”, “Wishlist” as well as other […]
Confluence 2.3 Sneak Peek – User Macros
In Confluence 2.3 you will be able to specify if you want the body of your macro pre-rendered from wiki text, and you can also create user macros that produce wiki text, to be rendered to HTML afterwards.
Bidi quirkiness
We’ve had a longstanding feature request for Arabic and Hebrew support in Confluence. Although pages can be written in any language, our UI didn’t support internationalisation until 2.2, and it still doesn’t have the flexibility to be easily adapted for right-to-left (RTL) languages. Google in RTL script And even though you could write a page […]
Atlassian Founders Share the Secrets of Success on Business Sunday
Atlassian founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar were recently featured on Business Sunday to discuss the company’s origins, today’s performance, and the future. Watch it now or read the transcript.
Using Jira for support
There’s a few neat things about using Jira for support. We’re eating our own dogfood, as the saying goes, by using our own software day-to-day. Email notification of events is the main way we keep track of what’s happening, and Jira is great for that. But what I like most is the configurable dashboard, which […]
Jira 3.6.3 Announced
Jira 3.6.3 was released just days ago. In this version we fixed over 30 issues to help improve performance, efficiency and security. Read the release notes here or download the latest version. Customers with active maintenance can upgrade at anytime. Great work on this, Jira developers!
Using Jira to manage releases
This is a short excerpt from an Anywhere blog posting entitled Using Jira to Manage Releases: I’ve been using Jira issue tracker for some years now for software development. I’ve also helped to roll it out at several client sites, which has given me the opportunity to see the different ways of approaching the issues […]
Confluence Travelling Quickly within Sabre Holdings
Over 2,000 employees at Sabre Holdings are using Confluence, the enterprise wiki, and it hasn’t even officially been rolled out! On the horizon, 10,000 Sabre employees spread around the globe will be using the wiki. I’ve got to say that’s pretty cool and so when the opportunity came for us to speak with Laks, a […]
SFWin at Atlassian
Atlassian is hosting the next installment SF Web Innovators Network on Tuesday (July 25th) at our offices in SF. (More on Upcoming). SFWIN is a group of people in the SF Bay Area technology industry who meet once a month in San Francisco for drinks, conversation and to get to know one another. Whether you’re […]
JHU Collaborates within Confluence
“[We] turned from creating Word documents and Excel spreadsheets into the almost living, breathing pages within Confluence.” We had a great conversation with the good folks of Johns Hopkins University about their use of Confluence, the enterprise wiki, as a collaboration tool. Read all about it in our newly posted Confluence case study. And, yup, […]
SFWIN at Atlassian on July 25th
Atlassian is hosting the next SFWIN event in our San Francisco office, July 25th beginning at 6pm. SFWIN organises monthly Bay Area events for the technology community to get together for drinks and conversation. If you’re in the area, please drop by to say hello. Learn more and register at the SFWIN website.