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Welcome to our holiday cookie edition. This month... AtlassianTV debuts, a discussion on IDEA and Eclipse, holiday shopping for geeks and more. Enjoy!

Which IDE is Best?

A comment to a previous developer blog post asked: "What is best, IDEA or Eclipse? I'm thinking now what I will use ;-) but I can't make my choose(sic) ;-("

See how the conversation on this topic transpired within Atlassian.

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AtlassianTV Goes Live

AtlassianTV debuted this month! Subscribe to the channel for discussions about Atlassian products and more general topics for developers and systems administrators.

Currently showing:

• Mylyn plugin for JIRA
• SharePoint Connector for Confluence
• Talking Nerdy
  

GreenHopper 1.6 and 1.7

Since I last blogged about GreenHopper, the agile planning tool for JIRA, it has seen two big news releases.

GreenHopper helps integrate more tightly with the various Agile methodologies out there, by giving you a card-like view of issues and allowing you to re-order and reschedule them easily. It also has a set of charts and statistics that are specifically tailored to agile teams, like burndown charts and velocity metrics.

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Product Updates

It's download and upgrade time! Here are our latest product releases:

• Crowd 1.2 gives sys admins greater control over directory permissions and additional features for use with OpenID, Subversion, Acegi and more. Download now.

• Crucible 1.2 and FishEye 1.4 work closely together. FishEye allows programmers to view their source code repository. Crucible is used for dynamic peer code review. Download Crucible 1.2 and Download FishEye 1.4.

• JIRA 3.12 provides the ability to configure a 'trust' relationship between JIRA and Confluence users. Download now, then see how we celebrated its release.

Developing JIRA Studio Part I

For the last few months, we've been hard at work creating the newest member of the Atlassian family, JIRA Studio. Since this product is targeted squarely at developers, we decided it would be useful to engage the developer community to talk about what we are working on, both the good and the bad.

Our team uses a modified XP process that splits work into one or two week iterations, recording tasks using both JIRA and the more traditional note cards. In this last iteration, numbered 114, our primary focus was to create a "Fireball"™ (our product manager makes us call it that).

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Using a Wiki for Online Help

Can you use a wiki for online help? And what are the tricky bits that you might need to work around?

Atlassian's technical documentation is online, alive, and version-specific. Most of it is written, managed and hosted on our Confluence site. Being a wiki, this site is a hive of activity – we are constantly updating and enhancing the pages, and visitors to the site add useful comments day and night.

Can this possibly be the right environment for context-sensitive help links – can we point a link from the screen in one of our shipped software products directly into a living and thriving wiki page?

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Our Reading List

Here are some blogs and sites we've been sharing around the office:

• Get the inside view into our own Support Diva's mind. Discover what happened when she committed code, and lots more in this interview.
  
• See some cool designs in Web Designer Wall's Best of CSS Design 2007.
• Check out Robert Fischer's useful lessons for 'final' in Java.
• Still looking for the perfect holiday gift? Visit Gifts for Geeks 2007 by Coding Horror.
• Interested in seeing 30 years-worth of LucasFilm Christmas cards? Here they are.
• Learn what our CSU University guest bloggers shared about  wiki growth, success and metrics.

Happy Holidays

Thanks for reading!

Until next year,
Your mates at Atlassian

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