Atlassian is hiring 32 engineers in Sydney!

Atlassian is looking for 32 engineers in Sydney to help us build kick arse tools.

Why should you apply? Because life at Atlassian is pretty awesome! We've created a great culture of openness and honesty, with no bullshit and no bureaucracy. And you get to work with a bunch of great teammates. Visit our site to learn more.

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JIRA 3.13.5 released & JIRA 4.0 Beta 2 now available

I am happy to announce that JIRA 3.13.5 released this week. Check out the JIRA 3.13.5 Release Notes and download it here.

After launching our first beta of JIRA 4.0 at Atlassian Summit last month, we have had hundreds of people download the beta and provide us tons of great feedback. This week, we released JIRA 4.0 Beta 2 which is the second major milestone release leading up to JIRA 4.0. This release contains over 250 fixes and improvements including activity streams, dashboard gadgets, advanced searching with JQL, and a sexy new header and project browser.

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Dig Deep into Confluence 3.0's Features

On June 2nd, 2009, Atlassian launched Confluence 3.0. Perhaps the biggest release in Confluence's history, 3.0 brought to the table a number of exciting new features.

The introduction of the Macro Browser has empowered all users, both business and technical, to create incredibly rich content by making the hundreds of macros that are available more accessible.

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Calling all Devs - AtlasCamp 2009!

AtlasCamp, our 2.5 day developer conference, is back for its second year! Whip out your calendar and mark these dates down: October 21 - 23. This year's event is located at the Oceano Hotel and Spa in Half Moon Bay. Just 20 miles south of San Francisco and home to the famous Mavericks surfing competition, this is guaranteed to be a good time!

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Bamboo 2.3 is Available

Bamboo 2.3 is now available and offers several great new features including:

• Improved Amazon EC2 Support, including multiple AMI support, reserved instances, and agent scheduling.
• Dependent Build Blocking Strategies enable smarter build configurations and ensure your builds run in the right order.
• Build Queue Re-ordering allows you to run high priority builds first in order to get important feedback as quickly as possible.
• Bulk Editing of Build Plans allows you to reconfigure some or all of your build plans at once.
• Over 80 other enhancements and bug fixes!

Download Bamboo 2.3 today or check out the Bamboo 2.3 release notes.

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Using JIRA for Product Management

Gathering customer input is a critical part of a Product Manager's job. Atlassian PMs have an ace up their sleeve: http://jira.atlassian.com. We've opened our internal bug tracking system to the world, and use that to help understand our customer's needs.

You Want Me To Talk To How Many People?

Talking to every customer is easy when you're a brand new startup with a handful of customers. It gets harder as your customer base grows, and if you're a volume business like us — we have 15,000+ customers — it's completely impossible to have a separate conversation with every customer. Your customers are going to talk about you - on forums, blogs, mailing lists, and Twitter. If you have a popular product, trying to keep track of all these conversations and distill them into engineering work would leave you with little time for anything else. For example: sleep.

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Integrate JIRA with Jama Contour

Recently, the folks over at Jama Software released the new JIRA Connector for Jama Contour which is now available for download on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. This integration is perfect for development teams using Jama Contour for requirements management and JIRA for managing development tasks. Coupled with GreenHopper, a plugin for JIRA, this is a great solution for agile software development all the way from user stories to release notes.

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Crowd 2.0 is Here!

Atlassian is absolutely stoked to announce Crowd 2.0. This release is the biggest Crowd release we've ever put together and is the result of over six months of very hard work by the entire Crowd team.

We've satisfied over 220 votes, including all the top three issues. Some of the highlights:

• User aliases
• Massive performance increases
• New UI for user and group management
• Nested groups for all directory types
• Auto-addition of users to groups

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jQuery Bondage

Rich web applications with large DOMs can create a new class of performance headaches for web developers. Seb Ruiz discusses this problem as recently faced in the user interface rewrite of FishEye and Crucible 2.0, his team's solution and the pitfalls.

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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 'Without using the word 'wiki' give us your best definition of Confluence.' The winner is Mary from New York who provided:

Confluence is an online collaboration platform which offers an internet interface to allow users to communicate, comment, and share documentation. This interface may be utilized for a myriad of uses including social networking, collaboration, and transactional interaction. It establishes a central communication point for knowledge sharing while effectively providing an audit of actions taken and traceability of input.

This Month's Question

We're curious, what Agile methodologies do you practice? 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.

Our Reading List

Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office:

• Forget Twitter. COBOL is where it's at.
• 10 Most Downloaded Wordpress Plugins of all time
• Command Line Keyboard shortcuts for Mac OS X
• Search engine blind test
• 16 Apps That Make Sharing Large Files A Snap
• What online services would you pay for?
   

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