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The Development Cascade
Imagine one of those Russian dolls, except that each time you open a doll up, you find a larger one inside, TARDIS-style. Welcome to my afternoon.
New Excel Macro
With the new Excel Macro, you can now attach an Excel spreadsheet to your Confluence page and have the table data show up as page content.
Christmas Party
The Atlassian crew at Christmas on Sydney Harbour. What a fantastic way to see the city, shoot a few clay pigeons (lasers only, don’t worry — no animals were hurt, clay or not) and share a couple of drinks with your workmates.
Code names, naming schemes and developer humour
The planning process for Confluence 2.2 reminded me that one of the quirky things I love about all technology companies is the strange way they choose their codenames and naming schemes. At university, I can still recall that all our machines were all named after classical composers (Mozart, Liszt, Bach…). At my previous firm, the […]
Confluence 2.1 Wiki: Ready for the Holidays
Atlassian announces the release of Confluence 2.1, the enterprise wiki. Coming just 3-weeks after the major 2.0 release, Confluence 2.1 enhances the wiki’s legendary ease of use and helps customers to better manage thousands of users and pages. A complete list of changes can be found online at http://www.atlassian.com/c/PR-C/10850/releasenotes. Confluence has been selected by nearly […]
Confluence 2.1 Now Available
Confluence 2.1 introduces autosave and concurrent editing warnings, integrates the atlassian-user user-management library including much-improved LDAP support, and improves the performance of the dashboard and edit pages for Confluence installations with large numbers of spaces or users.
Reducing JUnit memory usage
A little tip for those writing any form of “JUnit”:http://www.junit.org tests (this includes functional tests with JWebUnit or any derivative test frameworks based on JUnit). (The following is cribbed and edited from an Atlassian internal developer update email – kudos to “Charles”:http://fishbowl.pastiche.org for finding and bringing it to internal attention during his attack on improving […]
Confluence Calendar Plugin
I’m pleased to announce the imminent release of the Confluence Calendar Plugin (RC1).
You want support with that?!
I just thought this picture of Jens was too amusing to not be posted: *You want support with that?!* I’m not the best captioneer though. bq. *Competition?* Everyone likes a competition! The best caption for this photo (submitted as a comment in the next week) wins an Atlassian t-shirt of your choice – mailed to […]
Watch out for falling User Objects
Changes are afoot in the Confluence codebase for the upcoming AtlassianUser library. There are a few things that are important for you, as plugin developers, to know.
More mail in your inbox!
I’ve set up a new mailing list for the Developer Network Subversion repository. We’re using SVN-Notify to email any commit to the repository out to the list along with a nice HTML diff of the change. If you’re interested in keeping up with what’s happening in the repository (and there’s been quiet a bit lately), […]
The Economics of Bug-fixing
Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d best make sure that the benefit of fixing a bug outweighs the cost of doing so.
Global Charity Tied Together by Wiki
Non-profit Mercy Ships, located in Garden Valley, Texas, uses hospital ships to deliver free world-class health care services to the forgotten poor. And now they’re using Confluence wiki to manage their documentation. Read the full story. In fact, we love helping non-profits and open source projects and have donated hundreds of free licenses in the […]
Confluence 2.0 User Guide Online
The Confluence User Guide has been updated to cover all the changes we made in Confluence 2.0.