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We have a lot of news to share this month. First, Crowd 1.0, Confluence 2.4.2, JIRA 3.8 and Confluence Hosted released! Also, the Jolt Awards, OpenID discussions, developer blogs and more. Happy reading, mates!
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With the recent press covering big companies adopting OpenID, I decided to see what the fuss was about, and to take it a step further, modify Confluence to be an OpenID consumer. OpenID is an open, decentralised, free framework for user-centric digital identity. It basically allows you to log into one application using another for authentication. For example, AOL now supports OpenID, so the 63 million AOL Instant Messenger logins can now be used with any OpenID consumer. I modified Confluence to allow a user to use their OpenID account, an AIM account in my test case, to log into Confluence. See how this works. Continue reading...
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Crowd 1.0, our single sign-on authentication software, was launched earlier this month! For this release, we've done a short interview with Justen Stepka, the lead developer of Crowd.
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In case you haven't heard the news yet, we now offer Confluence Hosted! This allows companies to sign-up and immediately begin using this hosted wiki without need for the lengthy deployment cycles demanded by most internal IT organisations. Confluence Hosted also bypasses the installation, testing, distribution, and other implementation processes. Upgrades are performed automatically and invisibly, so customers will always be running on the latest version and have the benefit of the latest enhancements and bug fixes. One of the greatest promises of software as a service (SaaS) like Confluence Hosted is flexibility — flexibility to start small and grow as you add users or groups; flexibility to pay for only what you're using; flexibility to access the software from anywhere.
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We are happy to deliver JIRA 3.8 only 3 months after JIRA 3.7. In this latest release we've done a few things:
JIRA 3.8 also ships with a "feature preview" that loads screens with AJAX. By default, this feature is disabled. We encourage you to enable it and let us know if you think it's a worthwhile improvement. Where to next?
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Thanks to the hard-working Confluence Team, we present you with Confluence 2.4.2! To quote a Confluence developer: "What happened to 2.4 and 2.4.1? Let's just say we gave them a good workout." Among other enhancements and fixes, Confluence 2.4 introduces Editable Comments and gives you the ability to email the contents of a Confluence page to groups of users. Where to next?
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I've been doing a bunch of portlet development recently. Most recently, I've focused on portlets that can work in an Oracle portal environment. As with recent JSR-168 Portlet development, the goals involved not just creating a semi-useful portlet, but also learning a bit about the difficulty and feasibility of developing in a particular environment, and creating some documentation about the process and any gotchas that I ran into. With that in mind, I set off to "port" my Recently Updated Pages portlet so that it works in Oracle.
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A few new plugins and scripts:
Visit the Atlassian Developer Blog to catch-up on the latest technical news, including plugins.
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Bonjour. Guten Tag. The professional internationalisations of Confluence in German and French are now available. Visit our Translations space for more details and to download. Soon we will be adding additional internationalisations for JIRA. We currently have beta versions of the JIRA translations available via a QA instance for review; if you would like to assist in our QA, please contact me for more information.
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Recently I was guest blogging on Web 2.0 Explorer, Alan Graham’s ZDNet blog. (Thanks, Alan, for that!) I wrote five blogs, mostly about Web 2.0 technology in higher education, but here's a more general one I did about wikis: How Do You Get People to Use Web 2.0 TechnologyHave you introduced a friend of yours to a wiki? For first timers, wikis can be intimidating. Where do I start? How do I edit? Wait, you're telling me that EVERYONE can SEE and CHANGE my work? Wikis can be intimidating to the uninitiated. Wikis bring with them new ways of thinking about information, collaboration, and management. If you bring a wiki into your organization, you may face challenges and pitfalls when trying to get people to use it. I helped develop a new site called Wikipatterns.com which was intended to give anyone, anywhere, using any wiki application, a source of information (a pattern) for successfully introducing a wiki to their community, whether it's a corporation or a public website. Wikipatterns.com is itself a wiki, which means you can add your knowledge to it too… so please do so!
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Here are some blogs and sites we've been tagging to our office del.icio.us feed:
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Just off the presses — Atlassian products win Jolt awards! JIRA scored a hat trick by winning its third Jolt award in three years. And Confluence took top prize in a new Collaboration Tools category. One of the things that distinguishes these awards from other industry awards is that the judges actually use the products as opposed to only reading case study analysis. Each judge downloaded the respective software, did the installation, and tested the software themselves. We're really excited to have won these awards.
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