Clover 2.5 Released
Test Optimization now available for your IDE and functional tests
With the release of Clover 2.5, we have taken Test Optimization to a new level with some very significant improvements. You can now take advantage of Test Optimization directly from Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA with the click of a button. We have also added Test Optimization for functional testing or acceptance testing since these types of tests tend to benefit the most.
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Announcing the Charlies
We're happy to announce the Charlie Awards, which are open to all customers. Tell us what unique, powerful, and fun things you're doing with your favorite Atlassian tool(s) to win a coveted Charlie Award. The award winners and prizes will be announced at Atlassian Summit (you don't have to be there to win).
Categories include:
- The "Not just another wiki" Award: Best use of Confluence
- The "Bugs, what Bugs" Award: Best use of JIRA
- Menage a trois Award: Best use of 3 or more Atlassian Tools
- Hacker Award: Best use of a plugin(s)
- The X-files Award: Wackiest use of an Atlassian tool
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Stimulus Package raises over $100K
We recently ran the Atlassian Stimulus Package hoping to sell around 5,000 licenses and generate $25,000 for Room to Read. Well, we were way off the mark. Here are some stats:
- We hit our goal of $25,000 in just 23 hours
- After 5 days, 7,286 organizations purchased $5 licenses
- 13,126 licenses were sold
- $100,370 dollars was raised for Room to Read!
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From Generalists to Specialists
A while back Atlassian reached $100 million in all time revenue. We've asked some of our employees to give us their take on how they've seen the company grow. Better late than never, VP of Engineering, Soren Harner:
When I joined Atlassian in 2007, we had one-third the number of people in product development we have today, crammed into two rooms in a small office on George St. in the Sydney CBD. Bicycles were parked in all corners, and there were no showers, which made pair programming a challenge in the summer. All but two people wrote code, including the occasional juicy tidbit from co-CEOs Mike and Scott. JIRA and Confluence had half the customers they have today. Crowd and Bamboo were under construction but not released into the wild.
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Getting JIRA and Confluence onto Amazon EC2
Our recent offer of $5 licenses put JIRA and Confluence in the hands of even the smallest teams.
Adrian Hempel, Atlassian developer, took some 20% time to find a way to get you up and running quickly. What he worked out will get you started with no up-front costs, and running costs that can be less than $5 a week! Here are the topics Adrian covered so far:
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Bamboo plugins for Git and GitHub
In just the last few weeks, there have been several great developments for Bamboo users looking to move their source to Git or GitHub. What started as a FedEx project for Don Brown, our Integration Architect, quickly evolved into the Bamboo Git Repository Plugin thanks to the help of Jaun Alonso "slnc" and several others. Now, Andy Pols has stepped up with a GitHub Repository Plugin.
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Newsletter Exclusive!
Each month, we offer exclusive articles for newsletter readers only. Be sure to tell a friend about the newsletter. Enjoy!
This month's exclusive comes to us from the SF Support team. David Yu, Support Engineer, explains how and why JIRA's out of the box access logging has saved him many times.
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Newsletter Survey Results
For three years now — back when Atlassian was selling only two products — we have been sending our newsletter with virtually the same design and format. Atlassian has changed a lot since the newsletter was first launched, and we thought it was way past time to update the newsletter.
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Win a T-Shirt
The winner of last month's t-shirt drawing is a person named Jim. When asked 'what do you think of the new Atlassian Newsletter design,' Jim replied 'I love it! Just enough content in the mail to keep me informed and if I want more info I can hit the web! Well done!'
For more insight into our refreshed newsletter design, please read here.
This Month's Question
Tell us what your 2 favorite technology blogs are, and we'll put you in a drawing to win some free Atlassian gear. We'll announce the winner in next month's newsletter edition.
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Our Reading List
Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office:
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