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Confluence 2.0 Now Available
Confluence 2.0 contains over 200 improvements including the industry’s most comprehensive round-trip WYSIWYG editor, a highly requested labelling capability and much more.
Product Demonstrations and Murphy's Law
There’s a rule that says every time you demonstrate your product in public, you’re going to find at least one new bug. At least we only have to worry about the software crashing.
Jira 3.4 Released
Jira 3.4, the latest release of the award winning issue tracker, delivers over 120 individual improvements driven by extensive customer feedback, including wiki goodness.
How good is that!
If only all support issues were this easy. As a quick background, a customer is having some database connection issues. I Googled for “java.sql.SQLException: I/O Error: Connection reset at net.sourceforge.jtds.jdbc.TdsCore.executeSQL(TdsCore.java:1038) ” and was returned the two results you see in the image. The first is the Jira issue that I’m looking into. The second is […]
What’s new in the world of Plugins
We have a very generous community of people around Jira &Confluence who have been willing to share their development efforts with the rest of us. So we wanted to stop and highlight some the great work that our Developer Network is doing to extend and enhance the products during the last few weeks. Confluence Chart […]
Confluence Chart Plugin
David Petersen just contributed a great new plugin for Confluence: the Chart Plugin.
… and some bugs are just life threatening
In close succession to our own investigative bug analysis Wired have recently published an article entitled ‘History’s Worst Software Bugs’ (definitely worth a quick glance). Here’s a quick quotation from the source: What engineers didn’t know was that both the 20 and the 25 were built upon an operating system that had been kludged together […]
Some Bugs are Easier to Fix than Others
Unfortunately, there’s no Jira resolution for “Released back into the wild”
New Jira plugin module – Issue Operations
For those interested, I knocked up a very simple (yet very useful!) new plugin module for Jira 3.4 during the week. The Issue Operations plugin module (see “doc”:http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Issue+Operations+Plugin+Module) lets you add your own operations to Jira’s operations panel. _(In this screenshot ‘Google this issue’ is a simple issue operations plugin)_ This module is useful because […]
How much do you spend in meetings, exactly?
And every time any of his co-workers went to a meeting, they each created an issue with a one-line description of the meeting and logged how much time the meeting took — every participant, every minute.
All I want for Christmas is a new Plugin
I’ve just created a new page in the Atlassian Developer Network called the Plugin Wishlist.
Confluence Turning 2.0
So what inspired the progression from Confluence 1.4 to 2.0? The glib answer, of course, is marketing. And like most glib answers it’s both correct, and entirely unhelpful.