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Welcome to the May issue. This month... an IDE plugin, commentary on our developer's 20% time, the official launch of our hosted development suite and more. Happy reading!
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Not long ago we quietly launched JIRA Studio. A few weeks back, at JavaOne, we publicaly launched JIRA Studio! As part of the launch, we've updated the JIRA Studio homepage on our website with a bunch of new content, including a cool video and a revised feature tour. But most importantly, we've been listening to your feedback, and have updated JIRA Studio itself with new features, new pricing, and a special 25% off promotion.
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The IDE plugin allows you to work with the Atlassian products within your IDE — you don't have to switch between websites, email messages and feeds to see what's happening to your project and your code. Check it out. And, please let us know what you think. Happy coding!
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I must admit that while Charles was very excited to hear the announcement of the 20% time trial at Atlassian, I received it with mixed feelings. The first thought that popped into my head was that we are giving people one day a week to slack off. Hence, the features that we think will benefit customers the most will be delayed. How can we encourage developers to spend time away from the chosen roadmap? Aren't people just going to spend their time learning the latest scripting language of the day off the web? How will that bring benefit to our customers? I could just see it... Coming to work on a Friday morning, checking whether we are on track with the latest JIRA release, and seeing the guys, beer in hand, recoding JIRA's data access layer in JavaScript!
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The Atlassian Crowd team is proud to release Crowd 1.4! Highlights of this release include nested groups, a self-service console, a plugin framework that allows developers to write their own plugins for Crowd and lots of other goodies that help ease the administrators' role and give "power to the people."
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Matt Ryall and I were trying to get a Selenium build up to test Confluence's Javascript features, especially the new drop down menus and page ordering tree. It wasn't easy, but I personally think it is definitely worth having these tests. Below is a summary of the steps and problems we encountered in setting up the build. Step 1: Writing a Selenium Test A few weeks back, I did a Selenium spike to see how easy it was to write a test that logged into Confluence and opened an add-drop down menu. Surprisingly, this was very simple to do. I had to add the Selenium client dependency in my test module and then used the Selenium Maven Plugin to start the Selenium server.
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The beta version of the Bamboo Plugin for Confluence is out. The plugin provides several macros that allow Confluence users to easily display data from Bamboo, such as the status of a particular plan's latest build. For example, including {current-build:CONFSTABFUNC-LDAP|mode=full} in your Confluence page would result in something like this:
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... or, "Code Reviews for Fun and Profit!" This is the story of Atlassians jumping at the chance to review computer game logic. I work on documentation for Atlassian's products, namely FishEye, Crucible and Clover. As a non-programmer, this is challenging. My main problem is that each of these is a powerful tool for elite programmers, and it's very difficult to place yourself in the shoes of a Wintermute-inspired old-school hacker, who has a strong need for some l33t tools, when this is perhaps the last thing you would have considered for yourself on a given day, between breakfast and morning tea. In particular, Crucible. Crucible is a tool enabling peer reviews of code, which is of course an ennobling practice that fosters team development and allows spooky, pre-release bug detection. Logical bugs are caught so early, they rarely get a chance to crash anything. Weird!
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We are excited to announce that the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence is now available to Confluence Hosted customers, for free. The results are great looking drawings that can be added to pages in Confluence with a single click. Gliffy enables you to create flowcharts, UI wireframes, floor plans, network diagrams, UML diagrams and many more diagrams or simple drawings.
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Here are some blogs and sites we've been tagging around the office:
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By the way, we have a handful of free user groups coming up in Europe, as well as in Boston and New York. Sign up to attend one in the User Group space. Cheers! Your mates at Atlassian
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