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 Need some holiday cheer? Read the December issue! In this issue:
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Atlassian Summit: worldwide user conference |
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 Sun has JavaOne, Salesforce.com has Dreamforce, Oracle has Open World, Apple has MacWorld... and now Atlassian has Summit, our worldwide user conference. Grab your backpack, a pick axe, and hiking boots and come on up to Summit! Even though it's our first-ever worldwide user conference, several partners have already stepped up to the plate to support the event. The event could not be possible without them, so without further ado, I'd like to thank the following:
Read on | Register for Early Bird Pricing
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Clover 2.4: Stop testing so much! |
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 With the release of Clover 2.4 we've added a new test optimization feature that can dramatically reduce build times by selectively running only the tests relevant to a particular change. Automated testing is a great way of maintaining quality on a software project by providing quick feedback to developers when things break. Problem is, often teams find themselves with long-running suites of tests that become a time killer in the iterative development process. If the tests take too long to run, developers are less likely to run the full suite locally before a commit. Instead they commit their changes untested and rely on the Continuous Integration (CI) server to test it. In many teams this can mean the CI server gets quickly overloaded with changes to test, and developers wait hours to find out they broke the build. Read on | Clover 2.4 Release Notes
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Confluence 2.10 - Just in time for the Holidays |
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Here are five reasons Confluence 2.10 is this season's must-have holiday gift:  1. The New Widget Connector: sexier than the red stapler Read on | Confluence 2.10 Video Overview
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Announcing JIRA Studio 1.5 |
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 Atlassian is pleased to announce the release of JIRA Studio 1.5! The release features an upgrade to Confluence 2.10, improvements to searching, the ability to close issues via Subversion commit logs, Balsamiq Mockups for Confluence, and more! Even better, we now offer FREE 30 day trials — give it a test drive and tell your friends. Read on | Confluence 2.10 Release Notes
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FedEx 9 |
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We recently held Atlassian's ninth "FedEx" competition, and it's time to share the results with you.
1st Place: Ed Dawson, for his Atlassian-themed Flash game, "Atlassian Invaders" 2nd Place: Geoff Crain, with "Suggested Reviewers," a new feature for Crucible which suggests participants for code reviews 3rd Place: Tie between Mark Halvorson's "Dogear for Confluence" and Edwin Wong and James Dumay's "Personal Builds for Bamboo" Previous projects from this competition have graduated into extremely useful features in our products including the Widget Connector & Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Read on | Complete FedEx 9 Entries
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Subversion replication at Atlassian |
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It's cool working for an international company with an open philosophy, but our decentralised setup can cause some real headaches for sysadmins. One of these is giving fast access the source-code repository to our developers and support staff spread over 3 continents, all working on a common code base. Subversion is the existing version-control system here, primarily for the tool support and well-understood workflow. But it's not without its problems, not least that its chatty-on-the-wire nature causes problems when latency is introduced. And when your developers are in Sydney and your servers in St. Louis that's about as high-latency as you're going to get on the internet.
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Upcoming Events |
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2008 was a whirlwind year. Looking back at the 16 User Groups we had this year, we are eager to plan an even better year for 2009! Please visit our new Events page, complete with up to date details on our Webinars, User Groups, and Conferences. Here are the upcoming events which you may be interested in:
We need speakers for User Groups coming up in the following locations: Los Angeles, Seattle, Austin, Washington D.C., and Helsinki. If you are interested in presenting for 10-15 minutes at any of these locations, please contact us. To keep up to date, subscribe to the following: Webinar Calendar: xml | ical, User Group Calendar xml | ical, Conferences Calendar xml | ical
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Our Reading List |
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Here are some sites and blogs we've been tagging in the office:
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Thanks for reading |
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 Thank you for reading this month's newsletter, we hope you have a fantastic holiday season. Keep your eyes out for more information regarding our first ever Atlassian Summit. See you next year!
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