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6 Months at Atlassian |
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We welcome you as a new or old Atlassian newsletter subscriber. The time machine on the left indicates we want to take you back in time. The last article of this newsletter highlights stories from the last 6 months of Atlassian news. Enjoy the reading!
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Inside the Machine: Life at Atlassian Video |
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 While seeking inspiration for something to do for our regular FedEx Days (especially since I'm not a developer), I had the idea of making a Common Craft-like video about life at Atlassian.
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Clover 2.4 released, now test smarter with Test Optimization |
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We are pleased to announce the latest version of Clover which now adds automatic Test Optimization capabilities to our award-winning Java code coverage tool.  The Clover 2.4 release takes advantage of the "per-test" coverage data already being tracked in order to automatically optimise your testing. This means you spend less time running your builds and automated tests, and more time cranking out quality code. We have also packed in several enhancements to make the integration with your existing development tools, like Ant, Maven2, Eclipse, and IntelliJ IDEA, that much easier. For all the details on the over 40 major issues and bugs fixed in the this release, check out the release notes. Read on
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Upcoming Events |
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19 Nov 2008 - Plugin of the Month webinar. Andreas Meingast of netoCiety: Confluence plugin mashup 02 Dec 2008 - Webinar. The Wiki Epidemic: Connecting 80,000 users and 1000s of teams at Accenture 03 Dec 2008 - Atlassian User Group. Amsterdam, The Netherlands 03 Dec 2008 - Amsterdam Open House Party 04 Dec 2008 - Atlassian User Group. London, UK 08 Dec 2008 - Devoxx, the java community conference. Antwerp, Belgium 10 Dec 2008 - Voice of the Customer webinar. Joanna Thurmann of Polycom: large JIRA instance usage If you are interested in presenting for either the Voice of the Customer or Plugin of the Month webinar series, please contact us!
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20% projects in the wild -- Raphaël |
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As you may recall, in March this year, Atlassian publically announced the commencement of the 20% Time Experiment. Since then, we have been keeping you up to date how it works, and what people have been doing.  Dmitry Baranovskiy, a Developer on the Confluence team, has been spending his 20% time on a JavaScript library for creating vector graphics. In August, Dmitry released Raphaël -- the first 20% project unrelated to an Atlassian product to be released to the public. At the 2008 Web Directions South conference held last week in Sydney, Dmitry delivered a presentation, related to his work, and was interviewed by SitePoint's Andrew Tetlaw on the beginnings and details of the library.
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Only 12 months till next AtlasCamp |
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 I could not be happier about the outcome of Atlassian's first ever developers only user conference, AtlasCamp. Last week, the two-and-a-half day event held in Santa Rosa, California attracted the community's very best. Lot's of unconfernece time, lighting talks and even a little late night Werewolf created the perfect storm to energized an already active community.
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Come with me a on Magic Quadrant Ride |
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Gartner's popular Magic Quadrant for Social Software 2008 is out and Atlassian scored huge on the survey. Atlassian was recognized at the top as a leading company in the market for social software and team collaboration, based on our vision and execution. Congratulations, team, for putting Atlassian on top of the competition!
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JIRA Buddy brings JIRA to your iPhone |
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 Last week, in talking about my love affair with the iPhone, I briefly mentioned JIRA Buddy, an interface for JIRA that runs on the iPhone. I've been using JIRA Buddy for a couple of weeks now, and it's great. It's one of those applications that just works. It sets out to do a useful but simple tasks, and does it brilliantly.
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Come join us in Europe! |
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 We are looking for passionate people to make up the core of the new Amsterdam office! Let me tell you something we have not mentioned yet... This is going to be the coolest Atlassian home to work for. Don't miss our Amsterdam User Group followed by our Open House Party!
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Past 6 months at Atlassian |
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October Cobetura Plugin, NAnt Builder, and more Plugins Ross Rowe has developed over half a dozen plugins for Atlassian products, including several for Bamboo, such as the Cobetura Plugin and NAnt Builder Plugin. That's fine, you say, but how can you learn more? Or better yet, how can you start to make your own plugins? Start by tuning into the webinar we did last month with Ross where he demos some of the tools he built and gives tips for other developers.
September Announcing JIRA 3.13  Atlassian is happy to announce the release of JIRA 3.13! With this release, we've gone back to basics, and took a long look at jira.atlassian.com, a.k.a. JAC, our public Issue Tracker. We picked some of the most popular requested features, and put them into JIRA 3.13. The biggest feature included was Shareable Dashboards.
August New Confluence Shizzle - 2.9, Office and SharePoint Connectors  Today's an auspicious day for Confluence fans - Confluence 2.9 is out in the wild, with a gaggle of new features, 140 resolved issues and two wickedly cool plug-ins: the Office Connector, which lets users edit Confluence pages with Microsoft Office and OpenOffice clients (free for all customers), and the SharePoint Connector, which allows SharePoint and Confluence to share content and generally get cozy with each other (available as a for pay add-on). July Balsamiq Mockups brings paper prototyping to Confluence and JIRA New Atlassian partner, Balsamiq, has released an amazing new tool called Mockups: it's a flash-based drawing tool that is built specifically for designing software GUIs.
June Finally, the results of Codegeist III  The Codegeist III winners were finally announced. To remind everyone, there is one category for each of our pluggable products, and one winner in each category who will receive all this and more . I'll be going in reserve chronological order, with our newest product first: May I have the envelopes, please? Here are the winners:
May World, meet JIRA Studio. JIRA Studio, the world. In addition to moving to a new San Francisco office, we launched JIRA Studio.  Atlassian today announced the release of JIRA Studio, the all-in-one, on-demand development suite. JIRA Studio is a hosted development environment that solves one of the biggest headaches for developers: the deployment and maintenance of their tools. JIRA Studio includes many of Atlassian's award-winning products and provides a world-class issue tracker, an enterprise wiki for collaboration, as well as the ability to manage the code repository and manage code reviews.
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Our Reading List |
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Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office:
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Thanks for Reading |
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Atlassian is finalizing new User Group locations and dates coming up in late winter and ealry spring. Keep up to date by visiting our User Group space. Cheers! Your mates at Atlassian
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