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Atlassian Codegeist Meetups
We’re planning two meetups for Atlassian developers in the near future: one in Sydney and one in San Francisco. This is a chance to get together in the Atlassian offices for pizza, beer and, if you are so inclined, coding. We’re making ourselves available to help developers with their Codegeist plugins. Drop by the office, […]
Spread the word about Codegeist
Help us spread the word about Atlassian Codegeist! While it may slightly lower your odds of winning first prize, you’ll make up for it by having more new plugins that will make your life easier in the future. Isn’t that worth it? If you are a member of any technical user-groups (JUGs, LUGs, MUGs and […]
The Occasional Ray of Light
Still, it’s depressing sometimes, spending most of your time looking at your creation through a distorting lens that shows only its flaws. It’s very easy to forget that the reason people are reporting problems, and the reason people are thinking of more things they’d like the product to do is because they’re using it.
Bundled Confluence Plugins released into the wild; run free, little guys.
Many have asked, and we have answered: we’ve moved all of the bundled Confluence macros into the DevNet Subversion Repository for your hacking pleasure
Codegeist Submissions
Just a quick note to plugin developers: don’t forget to submit the plugins you’re working on now to Codegeist. You can publish them, share and collaborate (up to 3 developers) and let the community download and use them. And you can still submit them to the Codegeist Competition. Any plugin that was first released after […]
Announcing Atlassian Codegeist
Win up to $5,000; 8 weeks to build the coolest plugin That’s right, people. It’s time to show us your stuff. We’re announcing Atlassian Codegeist: our first, official plugin competition. We’re giving away fabulous cash and prizes to the person or team who comes up with the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin for either […]
An Easy $10,000 for Java Developers
Atlassian Software Systems announced their first annual “Codegeist” plugin competition. $10,000 USD will be given away in prize money. The coolest, most useful, most elegant plugins will win fabulous cash and prizes. All plugins submitted to the contest will be added to the Plugin Library for others to use and expand in the future.
Magic Millions
I know it’s a dubious claim (LOC – bah!), but sometime in the last month our public SVN repository cruised passed 1 million lines of code according to Fisheye. (Yes – if you really must you can put on an Austin Powers voice and repeat endlessly “1 million lines of code”) The repository contains all […]
Atlassian Receives Deloitte Fast 500 Award
Atlassian Software Systems today announced its selection by Deloitte in the Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the fastest growing technology companies in Asia Pacific. With three-year revenue growth exceeding 900%, Atlassian has not only positioned itself as one of the fastest growing software companies in Asia Pacific, but also the fastest growing software company […]
How We Use Jira and Confluence For Agile Development
Given that the Confluence team had significantly ramped up its agility in recent releases, I thought it was a good opportunity to chime in about how Atlassian, and the Confluence team in particular (Jira and Confluence are run quite differently), eat our own dogfood. We’ve had an interesting time finding the right balance between various approaches, and have finally ended up with a process that works well for us.
Jira 3.4.3 Released
Atlassian announces the latest release of the award winning issue-tracking platform – Jira 3.4.3 – available in Standard, Professional and Enterprise editions. This release includes over 30 bug fixes along with a number of improvements. Read more in the release notes.
Finally – a direct link to download the JDK!
Firstly – if you distribute server-side Java applications, then this URL will make your life a lot easier: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jdk/download.jsp. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, read on… As most Java programmers are aware, there are two distributions of Java from Sun. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and the Java Development Kit (JDK). The first […]
The devil is in the details
After a recent discussion about licenses in relation to a new Confluence plugin, I thought a quick post to the developer blog on the subject might be useful. Because Confluence and Jira and not themselves GPL’d, you should not release your plugins under the GPL. The GPL is incompatible with being plugged into non-OS products, […]
Finding State Leaks in JUnit Tests
A unit test is failing when run as part of a test suite. When you run the test on its own, the test passes. The cause of this is that some state (a static variable or thread local) is being set some time earlier in the suite, and is not being torn down properly. These bugs are hard to track down manually because they do not “fail fast”, but there’s a good way around the problem.
Taking control of Jira
I liked to think that Jira has a pretty excellent UI. It’s what originally attracted me to the product when I purchased it for the first time (back when I was a customer instead of an employee). But there are always places where things could be improved, as Leonard Lin showed us this week. He […]