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Lessons from Firefox: #3 – Lead by following
This is the third in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts 1,2 of the series). Lead by following Paradoxically, managers can be more influential by judiciously declining to exert control. How this applies to wiki collaboration: A wiki has the best […]
Would You Attend an Atlassian User Conference?
I’m trying to get a read on whether we should organize a worldwide user conference. If you can take 2 seconds and let us know on this survey, it would be really appreciated. Before you vote, here are some of the details…
Atlassian User Conference Survey
Should we hold a worldwide Atlassian user conference in the fall? Would you be interested and/or able to attend such a conference? I posted a poll on the Atlassian News blog earlier today to gather data on whether we there is enough interest in this type of event. If you have a minute, please vote! […]
Guest blogging this week for ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer
I’m guest blogging for Web 2.0 Explorer, Alan Graham’s ZDNet blog. So far, I’ve written about the growing use of wikis in education in Davids versus Goliath: a comparison of wikis versus Blackboard CMS. From the post: “The fundamental difference between the two is this: Blackboard is something designed to do everything, and the wiki […]
Confluence 2.4(.2) Released!
Thanks to the hard-working Confluence Team, we present you with Confluence 2.4.2! To quote a Confluence developer: “What happened to 2.4 and 2.4.1? Let’s just say we gave them a good workout.” Among other enhancements and fixes, Confluence 2.4 introduces editable comments and gives you the ability to email the contents of a Confluence page […]
Jira 3.8 Released
Dear Jira Users, We are happy to deliver Jira 3.8 only 3 months after Jira 3.7. In Jira 3.8 we have implemented one of the most popular features, Editable Comments; made Jira much easier to install and run on Windows via a Windows Installer; built a more robust integration with Atlassian Crowd (our identity management […]
Lessons from Firefox: #2 – Just ask
This is the second in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (part 1 of the series). Just ask There seems to be no limit to what volunteers are willing and able to do for an organization they believe in. But hardly anyone […]
It’s Wiki Week on BusinessWeek.com
Wikis are front and almost-center of BusinessWeek.com, and Confluence customer Sony PlayStation is mentioned in Tapping Wikis for Web Community-Building. The article is a good general overview of wikis in the corporate world. If you need to convince your boss to use a wiki, this is probably not a bad place to begin as it […]
Chatting with Bamboo
Mark Chaimungkalanont, lead developer on Bamboo, is going to be discussing our newest product on Thursday (you’re invited!), but he gave us San Francisco Atlassians a preview of it last Friday. I had seen some of it while the product was still in beta, but I hadn’t seen the latest version which includes a very […]
Lessons from Firefox: #1 – It’s the community, stupid
How do you run an organization composed of thousands of volunteers scattered around the world? That’s the question asked by The Mozilla School of Management, a feature in the February issue of Inc. magazine. The article resonated with me because the answers apply equally to an organization’s approach to successful wiki collaboration. In a series […]
Atlassian Dev Chat, Thursday March 15
Since I’m visiting our San Francisco office and am also the Bamboo development lead, we’ve decided to, somewhat belatedly, hold an Atlassian Dev Chat next Thursday, 15th of March. If you’re curious about Bamboo or just want to chat with some Atlassianites, including our Fearless Founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, then this is perfect chance to drop […]
Wikipatterns.com in the blogosphere
Since Wikipatterns.com launched on February 14th, a number of bloggers have discussed, praised, criticised, and analyzed the wiki. Here a sampling of what people have had to say: Mike Gunderloy, WebWorkerDaily: “There’s a lot of knowledge distilled in this site. If you’re trying to figure out how to get people on board with a wiki […]
Randombits and Plugins for Our Products
Rob Castaneda at CustomWare emailed me with some news: CustomWare Asia Pacific has recently acquired the popular Confluence plug-ins from Random Bits. The plugins creator, David Peterson, has joined the CustomWare team. We’ve just spent a lot of time upgrading the plug-ins to be compatible with Confluence 2.3 and moved them to their new home. […]
Remote Log Monitoring via RSS
While its great that applications such as Confluence keep track of errors by writing them to the logs, they are generally ignored as there is no convenient way to access them. I set out to solve this problem by writing a script (built on Enchanter) that processes log files on a remote server for any […]