In this issue

If the February weather has got you down, maybe these stories will brighten your day:

• Watch more AtlasCamp videos
• See a video of the new Atlassian IntelliJ Connector 2.0
• Summit agenda is now live
• Unit tests made fun with Mockito
• Confluence Team Hosted ships with Balsamiq Mockups
• Cornifying Confluence?!
• git bisect and much more...

AtlasCamp Videos

In Atlassian's San Francisco office, the developers have been hard at work on the next generation dashboard for all of our products. We're packing a lot of new ideas into this project: a modernized, drag and drop user interface; cross-product compatibility for sharing data between systems; a new development model based on the Atlassian Plugins 2 architecture; and the SAL API that allows us to write a single plugin that targets all of Atlassian's products.

See a few more AtlasCamp videos regarding these topics:

• Atlassian Gadgets
• Plugins Present and Future

Atlassian IntelliJ Connector 2.0 Now Available

I am proud to announce the release of the Atlassian IntelliJ Connector 2.0. Formerly known as the Atlassian IDE Plugin, the IntelliJ Connector allows you to interact with issues from JIRA, reviews from Crucible, and builds from Bamboo without ever leaving your IDE. You can even access and share links to FishEye for source code insight.

                             

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Summit agenda is live!

After a lot of late nights, debates, and hand wringing, we have published the agenda to our first ever worldwide user conference. Highlights include:

• Three tracks: Collaboration, Development Tools, and Plugins & APIs
• Over 60 sessions and lightning tracks
• Nearly 30 customer speakers
• Un-conference time
• Demos, talks, and previews of upcoming product releases
• Keynotes, updates, food, beer, partners, tshirts, and plugins... everything really, except clowns (they freak us out)

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How to make writing unit tests fun again (Mockito to the rescue)

Last year after finally getting fed up with mockobjects, I decided to have a look around for a better alternative. Having used EasyMock in the past, I knew there was at least one better framework. But after talking to other Atlassians I was pointed to Mockito (which started as a fork of EasyMock). Mockito finally got rid of the record-replay concept which was annoying me so much while using EasyMock, and after going through the docs and playing a little bit around with it, I was convinced pretty quickly that this is the best mocking framework currently available for Java.

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Confluence Team Hosted now with Balsamiq Mockups

January-09 is turning out to be the month of Confluence Team Hosted. Since we announced a $49/mo pricing tier earlier this month, our daily signup rate has doubled. Today we have more news to share with you... effective immediately, all Confluence Team Hosted customers get Balsamiq mockups bundled for free with their wiki.

Don't miss the upcoming webinar with Peldi of Balsamiq on 25 Feb 2009, 9am PST/17:00 GMT.

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git bisect

JIRA's Clover Code Coverage build is scheduled to run once a day. Yesterday someone checked in something that broke 194 tests. The problem is there were 18 commits by 7 unique authors and none of the commits come with a helpful message like "Warning, this commit is the one that will break the coverage build!"

To try to narrow down which of the commits was the problem, I decided to use an automated bisection of commits.

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Upcoming Events

All upcoming events are found on our events page; here are a few events coming up:

25 Feb - Webinar - Plugin of the Month: Peldi Guilizzoni of Balsamiq
10 Mar - Atlassian User Group - in the cool Alamo Drafthouse theater, Austin, TX
10 Mar - QCon London - the thrid annual enterprise software development conference
12 Mar - Atlassian User Group - 2030 M St, NW Washington D.C.
19 Mar - Atlassian User Group - San Jose, CA
31 May - Atlassian Summit - the User Group on steroids

Cornify your Confluence

Once in a generation, there comes along a technology that revolutionizes the way we work, the way we play, the way we see the world. No it's not the iPod, not the iPhone, not iAnything. Of course I'm talking about Cornify, a new service that offers unicorns & rainbows on-demand.

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Atlassian User Task Force

Atlassian invites you to join the Atlassian User Task Force. The purpose is to establish a direct communication (phone calls, web demos, on site visits) with our customers and Atlassian Product Management to gather direct feedback on new features, new designs, product prototypes, usability analysis, and beta testing new releases.

If you want to see new features as they are being developed and help provide product direction, please sign up for the Atlassian User Task Force.

Our Reading List

Here are some sites and blogs we've been tagging in the office:

• See the jQuery Cycle Lite Plugin, a lighter version of the Cycle Plugin
• Interesting html FORM Validators for web developers
• Embed a Part of a YouTube Video
• SOA & the Mainframe: Two Worlds Collide & Integrate
• Learn what Drupal is
• Check out funny examples of songs made with Songsmith
• Visual Representation of SQL Joins

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