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Vote for Atlassian in the Crunchies

What a great way to end the year! Atlassian has been nominated for the Crunchies! 82,000 nominations were made for thousands of individual startups. The top startups in each of twenty categories have made it to the final vote. Starting now, you can vote for the startups you think are most worthy in each of […]

Happy Holidays from Atlassian

Sydney Christmas Party

The Sydney crew took a far less refined road to celebrate the holiday season – that of go-karts and laser skirmish! We took two bus loads of staff down to Picton and had a fantastic day shooting at workmates and seeing who had the fastest track times. It was a great way to finish another […]

Product Management: Atlassian Style

We’re always interested in hearing from our customers and trying to incorporate what they want into our new releases. Using Jira, customers can request features while other customers vote for which of these features they would like to see in a product and can add comments on why its important to them. This puts our […]

The first thing you do when you get a new Mac is…

…to install Ubuntu on it! Well, not true actually, but I thought it would still make a good title for a blog ;). The standard machine upgrade at Atlassian these days seems to be a shiny new MacPro. They’re some of the sexiest machines I’ve had the pleasure to develop on. 4 cores and 4GB […]

Developing Jira Studio Part 1

For the last few months, we’ve been hard at work creating the newest member of the Atlassian family, Jira Studio. Since this product is targeted squarely at developers, we decided it would be useful to engage the developer community to talk about what we are working on, both the good and the bad. Our team […]

An Insiders Look: Part 1 of 2 on how we (Atlassian) collaborate

Before working at Atlassian, I had worked at a 60-person company with offices in Boston and San Francisco. Communication was terrible. Talk about being dysfunctional! (1) People on both coasts had no idea what the others were doing. (2) Email was a terrible way to collaborate on anything, but it’s what we relied on. That, […]

Using a wiki for online help

Can you use a wiki for online help? And what are the tricky bits that you might need to work around? Atlassian’s technical documentation is online, alive, and version-specific. Most of it is written, managed and hosted on our Confluence site. Being a wiki, this site is a hive of activity – we are constantly […]

GreenHopper 1.6 and 1.7

Since I last blogged about it GreenHopper, the agile planning tool for Jira, has seen two big news releases. GreenHopper helps integrate more tightly integrate with the various Agile methodologies out there, by giving you a card-like view of issues and allowing your to re-order and reschedule them easily. It also has a set of […]

Interview: Atlassian Support Diva Commits Code

  You know our products and maybe our culture. But what about the people behind the scenes?   Today I’m happy to kick-off Inside Atlassian Minds, an interview series that will shed a little light into the work and lives of individual staff members.   The first Atlassian staff interview is with Donna, our Support […]

Edible (Gingerbread) Atlassian

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Video: Using Mylyn with Jira

I blogged recently about the Jira+Mylyn integration with Eclipse, and now we’ve got a video demo to show you the Jira hotness in action. As I said last time: Mylyn brings Jira right inside your IDE. You can view your whole list of assigned issues in Jira. If you tell Mylyn which issue your working […]

"cache-control: no-store" considered harmful

If your browsing habits are anything like mine you may have realised, when using Confluence 2.7, that the back and forward controls on your browser seem to be much faster when traversing wiki pages.

What did we do to celebrate the launch of Jira 3.12?

Because “we’ve got issues”, too 🙂

Which IDE is best?

A comment to a previous developer blog post asked: “What is best IDEA or Eclipse? I’m thinking now what i will use 😉 but i can’t make my choose(sic) ;-(” Matt’s response to that comment was appropriately diplomatic, but a recent exchange in Atlassian’s internal blogs might shed some more light on the issue.