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Improved Share Notifications and Blog Comments – Coming Soon in Confluence 4.2
It’s time to get amped people. Confluence 4.2 is just around the corner and it’s so jam-packed with new features and improvements that we need to start sharing them with you, now! Share notifications get a boost The Share button is perfect for connecting people with content you’d like to get feedback on, or work they […]
Raise the Roof!
To celebrate Atlassian’s recent 10 year anniversary and beautiful new space, we are throwing an all-out ragin’ raise-the-roof party in our new neighborhood, SOMA. In traditional Atlassian style there will be live music, delicious treats, and enough open bars to quench the thirst of the entire city of San Francisco. We’re excited to celebrate with […]
European AtlasCampers Unite
I just arrived home from another awesome AtlasCamp, our annual gathering for developers, add-on vendors, and interested customers. AtlasCamp was a bit different this year. For the first time around we hosted camp in a European city — Weisbaden, Germany. It turned out to be the best and biggest AtlasCamp we’ve had yet! We had over […]
Bonfire 2 Deep Dive – Ensure Consistent Bug Reports from Remote or Outsourced Testers
Atlassian Bonfire 2 makes it easy to test together, whether you sit across the room or across the globe from the rest of your team. You may work with consultants, teams at partner companies, or outsource development or testing. Quality issue creation from people outside your team is important to keep software development projects on […]
Agile Defect Prevention
This is a guest blog by David Jellison of Constant Contact, the original post appears here. David will be sharing his story of scaling Kanban in the Enterprise at Atlassian Summit. I recall a day in the late ’90′s when assessing readiness for deployment of an application at Kodak after a several month long release cycle […]
Jira 5 Deep Dive – Issue Linking
Want to link a Jira issue with a requirements document in Confluence, or with a support ticket in Desk.com, or even with a Google search result you found? With Issue Links in Jira 5 you can quickly and easily append important information to your Jira issues to give you more context, facilitate collaboration, and help […]
ShipIt Day: And the winner is…
Every quarter, our engineers get to 24 hours to work on anything they want related to Atlassian with the aim of shipping a functional product. We call these innovation days ShipIt Days. We’ve run nineteen ShipIt Days total, with over 550 projects presented since our inaugural event. And in November 2011, we launched a campaign to put […]
Funky Tidbits for Technical Writers
This is the fourth post in a month-long series centred around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
Markdown support for Jira
Do you like Markdown? Do you wish you could use it when reporting bugs in Jira? Well good news everybody. There is now an open source plugin for Jira that gives you first class Markdown support. Its based on the excellent PageDown library that forms the basis of StackOverflow’s markdown support. One of the things […]
Stable APIs? Yes, we have them.
I think we can all agree that building a software product is difficult. What’s even more difficult is maintaining it. It’s particularly difficult and frustrating when the APIs you’ve come to depend on change from under you. Changing APIs between minor releases negatively affects the developers who rely on it for their products, the customers […]
Fisheye Release Report 2: You Want to Merge What?
The last time I introduced the Fisheye Release Report, we focused on how it can show you which Jira issues are included in your new release based on the source, rather than based on what your developers enter manually into Jira. Furthermore, the Release Report summarizes important information about those Jira issues, such as their […]
Team Calendars 2 – How to Avoid the ‘Oh $%*#’ Moment
A lot of work we do revolves around people, projects and content that can’t be tracked using a Personal Calendar. With so many different schedules and projects happening at once, getting everyone on the same page is nearly impossible, increasing the likelihood of an ‘Oh $%*#’ moment – the moment when you realize you’re going to miss a […]
Team Calendars 2.0 – Reschedule Jira Issues with Drag-and-Drop
It’s been nearly one year since Team Calendars‘ inception and we’ve decided to celebrate its first birthday a little early with our biggest release to-date. Team Calendars 2 brings Jira and Confluence together like never before and is available for download now! 3 Kick-ass New Features 1. Reschedule Your Jira Issues with Drag-and-Drop A Jira Calendar allows you to […]
Share Confluence Pages and Attachments Securely with SSLPost
This is a guest blog post by Gareth Wilson from Adaptavist, an Atlassian Platinum Expert. Adaptavist provide services and best practice that help ensure customers’ success with Jira, Confluence, and Dev Tools. Introducing SSLPost for Confluence The new SSLPost Document Encryption add-on for Confluence enables you to securely send Confluence pages and attachments to colleagues, customers and […]
Summit 2012 agenda is live
The agenda for Atlassian Summit 2012 is now live — and boy is it a doozy! Over four dozen stellar customer, staff and sponsor presentations are scheduled on the theme of the “Art of the Team.” There are dozens of case studies this year from organizations like Constant Contact, MIT, Harvard, Dachis Group, PuppetLabs and way more. […]