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My Hip New Workflow with Hipchat
I’m not a huge fan of most notifications, especially the ones that vie for my constant attention — like badge notifications on my iPhone. However, there is a time and place for focused and timely notifications that have increased my productivity. Many people who’ve never used Hipchat before are quick to dismiss it as a […]
Atlassian Developer Artwork: Bonfire’d Art
Since we released the awesome new screenshot annotation tool in Bonfire 2.1 we’ve seen a few interesting bugs raised by our internal users (for their own products, not Bonfire) Link to Issue Nav Duplicates Project Clause Klingon in Error Message Swimlane Not Shown, AKA “The Mickey Mouse” Issue Key Wraps The Mona Lisa What Bonfire’d […]
Never Miss Another Important Conversation Again with Confluence 4.2
Thanks to Confluence 4.2, your team is pumping out engaging, structured content, and everyone is contributing and starting rich conversations that lead to real results. With such constant activity and contribution, you might be wondering how to cut through the noise and find the most important conversations in Confluence. Fear not! Confluence 4.2 makes discovering […]
Announcing Atlassian Stash – DVCS management for the enterprise
Distributed version control systems are not just the future, they’re now, and Git has emerged as one of the most popular code version control systems out there. A plethora of online services emerged (including our own Bitbucket) to help early Git adopters share, manage and collaborate their code. For the open source community and many startups, […]
Meet Atlassian Stash: Git Repository Management for Enterprise Teams
Stash is now called Bitbucket Server. Read our announcement blog. Meet the newest member of the Atlassian Developer Tools Family – Stash. Atlassian now offers a centralized solution to manage Git repositories behind the firewall. Streamlined for small agile teams, powerful enough for large organizations. For many companies, hosting an internal source control server and maintaining […]
What is a Wiki: 14 Myths, Busted
Wiki – we’ve all heard the word before. When you ask someone “what is a wiki?”, the typical response is usually, “oh, a wiki, that’s Wikipedia right?”. Well, kind of. Wikipedia is based on wiki software, but not the kind that’s built for the needs of team and enterprise-wide collaboration. This association is why people have […]
Linking Bitbucket with the Jira issue tracker
The Bitbucket team has been working hard to bring distributed version control (DVCS) capabilities to Atlassian’s Jira to help complete your development suite. In February, we released the Jira DVCS Connector; this nifty plugin allowed you to jump to your Bitbucket or GitHub repositories straight from the Jira Commits tab. Today, we are introducing Bitbucket Links. With Bitbucket Links, you […]
The Top 8 Reasons to Come to Summit
Only a handful of tickets remain for Atlassian Summit. Need tips for customizing Confluence, scaling Jira, or perfecting Agile? With Seven tracks, over 70 speakers, 8 training sessions, you’ll be able to tailor the event to meet your specific goals. Hosted at the beautiful design center in San Francisco it will be the largest Atlassian event […]
Newest Feature in the Atlassian Office: A Convenience Store
In Atlassian Support we aim to provide Legendary Service to our customers and ultimately make our customers awesome. We also like to have fun while doing it! Most recently, while Tim Wong, one of our Senior Suport Engineers in San Francisco was spending 3 months abroad in our Sydney office to help train up new staff (it’s all […]
Jira 5 Deep Dive: Admin Luv
As a Jira administrator, you’ve no doubt heard and seen some of the highlights of Jira 5 – big features to connect people, activity and applications across your organization. For administrators, we’ve opted for – as SD Times put it – ‘A relentless focus on saving you 5 minutes here and there’. While these incremental […]
Win $10,000 for your charity or non-profit
The Atlassian Do-Gooder Award is back! Open to our Community License holders, the Do-Gooder award is a competition that simply asks: what’s your story? The best story-teller, ie, the winner of the competition, will win a $10,000 donation for their non-profit, a free pass to Atlassian Summit to accept the award, a free stay at the event, reimbursement (up to […]
Fast, Usable Diagrams & Mockups with Creately for Confluence
This is a guest blog post by Chandika Jayasundara, Co-Founder and CEO of Creately, an online diagramming plugin for Confluence which lets you create and add all kinds of diagrams like flowcharts, wireframes, UML diagrams and mindmaps for your wiki pages and blogs. Since we launched the Creately Confluence diagram plugin a few months ago, hundreds of customers have chosen Creately for […]
What is Your Tutorial’s Funnel Conversion Rate? (Part 1 of 3)
The latest assignment I’ve got calls for a redesign of the Atlassian tutorial that introduces developers to our software developer kit (SDK) . This is the first of a three-part series of blogs related to this project. In this part, I discuss the project goals, the research behind the redesign, and some metrics for measuring […]
Automatically Creating Bamboo Elastic Images with Bellatrix
As a software company boasting 15 products and add-ons, as well as dozens of plugins for them, Atlassian builds a lot of code. I mean, a LOT of code. We’re also famous for eating our own dogfood, so of course we use Bamboo to orchestrate it all. Conducting the orchestra is a small and dedicated team […]
Ignite Collaboration with Quick Comments and Likes in Confluence 4.2
Encouraging collaboration that leads to the inception of brilliant ideas and even better results requires two processes. It starts with content creation – someone creates a wiki page or blog post to form ideas, specifications, project plans, or anything else. That content then needs to be discovered by other people or team members. Others can be pulled into Confluence […]