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| MARCH 2012 EDITION | | | |
| | | Meet HipChat | | | | Please give a warm welcome to HipChat, the newest member of the Atlassian family! We're thrilled to announce Atlassian acquired HipChat – a transformative hosted group chat service that helps teams, or entire companies, collaborate in real-time. HipChat's amazing team, including all three co-founders – Pete, Garret and Chris – have moved into our new San Francisco digs to continue driving HipChat's growth. Read more » | | |  | | | |
| | | Testing together with Bonfire 2 | | |  | | Introducing Atlassian Bonfire 2, connecting people and teams involved in software development and testing. Bring developers and QA closer together, and get everyone exploring your web application to create high quality issues in JIRA. Read more » | | | | |
| | | Team Calendars 2: Drag-and-drop JIRA issues | | | | It's been nearly one year since Team Calendars' inception and we've decided to celebrate its first birthday a little early with our biggest release to date. Team Calendars 2 brings JIRA and Confluence together like never before and is available now! Read more » | | |  | | | |
| | | Summit 2012 agenda is live | | | | The agenda for Atlassian Summit 2012 is live - and boy is it a doozy! Over four dozen stellar customer, staff and sponsor presentations are scheduled on the theme of the "Art of the Team." There are dozens of case studies this year from organizations like Constant Contact, MIT, Harvard, Dachis Group, PuppetLabs and way more. We will also have Atlassian product demos, sneak previews, and the latest add-ons for Atlassian's tools. Read more » | | |  | | | |
| | | Git vs Mercurial: Why Git? | | | | In our previous article we explored why teams may choose Mercurial as their distributed version control system (DVCS) of choice. Now let's explore why Git is a strong option as your distributed version control system. This article takes the (cough) winning (cough) side of Git and looks at some of the compelling reasons why it may have risen to dominance in this epic struggle. Read more » | | | |
| | | Getting rid of unwanted HTTP sessions | | | | Java Servlet HttpSessions are deceptively cool. They allow you to store away stuff for a user and they have lifecycle that cleans up after themselves. But they do have a cost. If your instance is open to the wider web, the sessions can chew up memory. So to work around this problem we put together the atlassian-bot-killer plugin. Read more » | | | |
| | | QA innovation blog round-up | | |  | | We've learned a lot from the submissions to our 13-part blog series about testing innovation within the QA community. Having just announced Bonfire 2, with new features to connect teams, testers, and foster collaboration, it's a great time to take a look back at everything we've learned so far. Read more » | | | | | | | The pull request story | | | | Pull requests have become a bedrock of our team's development process. However, a large pull request that touches many files and spans multiple commits makes for a difficult diff to review. Reviewing a pull request is easier if it tells a story, and one great way of doing so is by organizing commits into orthogonal layers and commits that each address one concern. Read more » | | | |
| | | Europe, we're coming for your geeks! | | | | Anyone who follows our blog posts has probably noticed that we like to do things a little differently at Atlassian, including our recruitment. Next month, we're going on the road for a fifteen-day "Recruitment Roadshow" bus tour through four European cities – London, Madrid, Berlin and Amsterdam. A select team from our Engineering department will take Europe by storm in a swag-filled bus to hire fifteen software developers (yes, that's 15 in 15!). Read more » | |  | | | | |
| | | Atlassian bugs infest SXSW 2012 | | | | Twelve Atlassians flew to Austin, TX for SXSW and dressed up as bugs to promote our Bug Rehabilitation Program (BURP) and meet customers. A quick re-cap: Since JIRA – Atlassian's bug tracker – exploded onto the scene, software bugs everywhere have been put out of work. JIRA 5 caused such a dramatic spike in the bug unemployment rate that Atlassian decided to offer a rehab program for the little guys. Why not reprogram bugs to help the software development community? Read more » | | |  | | | |
| | | Win this shirt | | | | As you may have heard, HipChat has joined the Atlassian family. One of HipChat's perk features is it's killer set of emoticons, however, we're open to suggestions for more. | | | | Fill out this form and enter to win a HipChat shirt by describing your original idea for a new emoticon. We'll pick a winner in April and, who knows, maybe your emoticon idea will join the collection! | | |  | | | |
| | | Our reading list | | | | Here are a few sites and blogs we've been tagging around the office: | | | | | | | |
| | | Thanks for reading | | | | Thanks for reading this month's edition of the Atlassian Newsletter. If you have ideas or feedback, feel free to contact us. | | | | Until next month! | | | | Cheers, | | | | The Atlassians | | | |
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