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Confluence & Domino at NYK: An Enterprise Wiki Adoption Story
Dennis Howlett recently wrote about how NYK Shipping & Megacarrier is using Confluence and Lotus Domino together to power their intranet. NYK is a global shipping company (one of the world’s largest, in fact), and Alek Lotoczko, who runs the company’s intranet, was looking for a way to increase collaboration after seeing that only about […]
Jira Labels Plugin 2.0
We recently completed a major overhaul of the Jira Labels Plugin with a primary focus on stability and performance. New Atlassian Developer, Rich Wallace (p.s. we’re hiring java developers in San Francisco!) spent several days cleaning things up, and the plugin is more stable and about 1000x faster. We’ve optimized the heck out of our […]
Why wikis should replace email for collaboration
The InfoWorld blog points to a recent survey showing that corporate email is becoming more expensive than ever. The survey, conducted by Osterman Research, looked at just over 100 enterprises with an average of 6,636 email users and found that a majority are concerned about the expense associated with migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2007. The […]
GreenHopper – Agile Project Management Tool for Jira
At Agile2007, Atlassian Partner Pyxis Technologies announced the release of GreenHopper 1.2, an agile project management tool for Jira. This plugin is great news for Jira customers looking for a tool to increase visibility and traceability of ongoing versions. As an extra bonus, GreenHopper comes with an interactive and simple interface (AJAX-based) to manage agile […]
Two Wiki Case Studies: Pharmaceutical and Law
A few weeks, I came across this in-depth case study about the use of Confluence as an intranet at Janssen-Cilag, a pharmaceutical company. There was a lot of talk within Atlassian about this article, so much in fact that I was sure I must have blogged about it here. But a few quick searches today […]
The Evolution of Publishing
Linda Skrocki published this awesome video (by Danny, Sun’s new video production and social media intern) on her blog showing the evolution of publishing at Sun Microsystems. The video culminates in wikis.sun.com, the new wiki site powered by Confluence. And what killer editing! It flies between screens and keeps the viewer’s attention by building sentence […]
ShipIt VI – One-Click Blog Publishing
An important lesson in software is to use it for what it does well, and don’t try to force it into areas it isn’t meant for. Blogging has become an important communication tool for many companies, both outside and inside the firewall. Confluence provides decent support for blogging, and a good match for behind-the-firewall internal […]
An x-ray of Confluence
In many ways, Confluence has grown organically, and its dependency tree is no exception. Confluence has well over 100 open source dependencies which we ship with, and a dozen or so more used purely for testing. The other day I was investigating some duplication in our Maven dependencies, and Sam recommended the JFrog dependency analyser. […]
Cutlassian 2007
This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of joe, sit back, relax and read on matey! h1. The Background Historically at Atlassian, there are 3 big staff events at Atlassian during the year – Christmas, Melbourne Cup (or Superbowl if you’re on the […]
Text trimming with CSS Overflow property…
Currently (Pre Jira 3.11), linked issues on the view issue page of Jira have their summary trimmed down to 40 characters with trailing ellipsis on the server side and looks something like this: Notice the wasted white space? The white space also grows as the browser resolution is enlarged as the summary is always showing […]
Wiki Adoption Part 4: Email Overload Killed the Businessperson
This is the fourth in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. One of the things I consistently hear when I visit customers: reducing email is a key business case for the wiki. Email is one of the biggest […]
Atlassian is looking for talent
As some of you may know, we have been trying to fill a number of open positions available throughout the company. In our latest assault, we are going to publicise our vacancies as heavily as possible throughout our website — but targeted at the right audience. As the majority of our open positions are based […]
Office 2.0
We’re sponsoring the upcoming Office 2.0 event in San Francisco. There will be a few Atlassians at the conference listening to speakers, roaming the exhibit area, and, hopefully, participating on one of the panels. Let us know if you’d like to pre-arrange a meeting.
UNSW Event: Meet the Entrepreneur
University of New South Wales alum and Atlassian co-founder, Mike Cannon-Brookes will be speaking in Sydney on 4th October. The “Meet the Entrepreneur” event will be hosted by the ICE Forum and the UNSW Centre, Innovation & Entrepreneurship. For details, including location and pricing info, please visit the ICE announcement page.
AtlassianTube
Pop some popcorn, pour yourself a drink, and sit back for Atlassian user group presentations. We’ve compiled video from the Boston and Palo Alto events. Scott Farquhar opened both user groups with a presentation about Atlassian, describing the company’s history and the products we’ve developed. In Cambridge, his presentation was followed by Carter Snowdon at […]