Summit 2009 Redux
The sun has set on Atlassian Summit, our first ever worldwide user conference, and what a wonderful ride it's been. We oversold the event, assembling close to 400 people in San Francisco, for two days of training, content-stuffed breakout sessions, demos, mingling, and of course a bit of beer-chugging. Some of the highlights:
Video and slides from Summit 2009 are now available for all to see.
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Introducing Confluence 3.0
We've hit a major milestone in the evolution of enterprise collaboration. We celebrate the birth of Confluence 3.0, a new generation of the world's most popular enterprise wiki.
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Atlassian acquires GreenHopper
Not only have we acquired GreenHopper, we have added it to JIRA Studio for free!
GreenHopper is a JIRA plug-in that adds a broad collection of agile project management capabilities to JIRA, and extends JIRA as a powerful platform for agile development teams. GreenHopper simplifies the planning and organisation of tasks, workflows and reporting for agile teams.
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agile @ Atlassian
We have launched a new blog series we're calling agile @ Atlassian.
Whenever we bump into customers and peers, they ask us "how do you guys build great software?" It's asked so often we pulled together some content around what we do, and how we do it, focusing on the tweaks we've made that have improved our process and our product. It's something we plan to expand over time, as we try new things and chip away at improving what we do.
As a part of this series, we decided to assess ourselves against Dean Leffingwell's Agile Enterprise Acid Test. The test consists of 9 questions, grouped into 3 elements.
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Introducing the Atlassian Plugin Exchange
I'm excited today to announce the availability of Atlassian's newest website, the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. The Plugin Exchange provides an easy way to find, download, and review plugins for all Atlassian products.The Plugin Exchange was built out of a need to consolidate and scale our burgeoning plugin libraries which have grown exponentially in the last few years.
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Atlassian Clover wins Duke's Choice Award
At JavaOne 2009, Clover received the Duke's Choice Award for Java Technology Tools. Clover was hand picked by the Father of Java himself, James Gosling, for its revolutionary Test Optimization capabilities which can significantly speed up development.
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Atlassian Eclipse Connector 1.0 released
This week we officially released the Atlassian Eclipse Connector 1.0 after wrapping up our 2-month beta. Thanks to some great feedback from early adopters, we were able to quickly sort out some installation issues, finish up the remaining features for FishEye and Crucible, and put on the final polish.
In all, 19 bug fixes and 7 new features were completed during the beta. Thanks to all who participated in the beta!
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40 to 7: How We Sped Up Confluence's Build by a Factor of 5
Don't you hate committing code and then waiting hours to find out you broke the build? Even worse is when other people commit code at a similar time to you, and you get dragged into the 'who broke the build' witch-hunt by pure circumstance.
If your build times are blowing out because of long test runs (greater than ten minutes), then you are most likely suffering from CI (Continuous Integration) latency and the above problems are real problems for you and your team.
Clover can help alleviate theses problems, by optimizing both unit and acceptance tests, drastically reducing the feedback time for each commit. Below is a case study of how Clover's Test Optimization is run on the Confluence project.
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Win a T-Shirt
Every month, we pose a question to our newsletter readers. From the answers provided, we choose a winner at random to send some Atlassian gear.
Last month, we asked 'What are your 2 favorite technology blogs?' The winner is Robert from Texas who provided both www.engadget.com and www.arstechnica.com. See more blogs mentioned here.
This Month's Question
What do you primarily code in? Answer this, and we'll put you in the 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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