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Summit 2012 agenda is live
The agenda for Atlassian Summit 2012 is now 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. […]
New GreenHopper! 5.9.1 with more Rapid Board for Scrum features
It wasn’t long ago that we released GreenHopper 5.9 and introduced the Rapid Board for Scrum into GreenHopper Labs, our proving ground for new functionality. Today we’re giving early adopters of the Rapid Board for Scrum even more to play with, specifically: Add stories to an in-progress sprint Drag and drop the issue in […]
Atlassian Bugs Infest SXSW 2012
Last week, twelve Atlassians flew to Austin, TX for SXSW and dressed up as bugs to promote our Bug Rehabilitation Program (BURP) and meet customers. This blog is a re-cap of our fun campaign. Since Jira – Atlassian’s bug tracker – exploded onto the scene, software bugs everywhere have been put out of work. The […]
(Guest Blog) Why Write a Jira Book?
This is a guest post by Matt Doar of CustomWare. He has written two books about Jira. One of which, Practical Jira Administration, is up to date with all of the latest Jira 5 goodness. As we all know, Jira is extremely flexible. You have the option of customizing pretty much everything. However, learning how […]
Building in the Cloud Just Got Cheaper!
Great news for Bamboo users! If you haven’t already heard, Amazon has dropped the price of running EC2 instances. In other words, it just got cheaper to: run your Bamboo builds in the cloud instead of on your own iron tighten up feedback time on your builds by running more jobs in parallel execute builds […]
The Jira Development Team’s Journey to NoOps Freedom with Bryce Johnson
Agile teams that have bridged the gap between development and operations can deliver value to their customers faster. In this presentation Atlassian build engineer Bryce Johnson explains how one team re-defined their definition of done to include delivery. Bryce will share the engineering challenges involved with scaling a build system and also […]
JavaScript Changes Required for Confluence 4.2 Compatibility
The release of Confluence 4.2 is not far away now, and it’s shaping up to be a doozy! We’ve just published a beta of Confluence 4.2, so be sure to download it and check out the release notes to see the upcoming features we’ll be shipping. More importantly, our betas and release candidates are a […]
Jira 5 Deep Dive – Activity Streams
Activity Streams are the best way to follow what’s happening in real-time on your Jira issues and projects. Quickly see all external activity from Atlassian tools like Confluence, Fisheye, and Bamboo, as well as from third-party software like Box, Zephyr, and Tempo. Whether you want to see Confluence page updates, Bamboo build information, or issues […]
Bonfire 2 Deep Dive: Shared Sessions & Blitz Testing
Atlassian Bonfire 2 makes it easier than ever to collaborate with teammates around test activity. Software development involves the entire company, and collaborative testing is one of the ways Atlassian connects people across teams working together to make better software. Share & Join Sessions Bonfire’s Test Sessions are the central place in Jira to track […]
Turning Documentation into Communication with Confluence
This is the third post in a month-long series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
What’s your Testing Mission?
Sessions are a great and simple way to organize testing tasks. They are nothing more than dedicated time to test a feature with the intent of fulfilling a mission. In fact, because the division of a task into smaller pieces is so intuitive, we often forget the importance of the mission itself. In this blog post […]
Jira 5 Deep Dive – Remote Integrations
With the release of Jira 5, we made significant improvements to the Jira REST API. The full featured Jira REST API allows you to create, update, and search for issues. You can even take advantage of Jira 5’s newest features by creating remote issue links and adding custom events to the activity stream. Developers love this […]
Get to Know Bamboo’s HungBuildKiller Plugin
What it lacks in snazzy naming, it makes up for in sheer brute-force functionality. It detects. It dispatches. It notifies. It is… the HungBuildKiller plugin, created by Atlassian build engineer Adrián Deccico (with help on the UI from Bamboo’s own Brydie McCoy)! Hung Up On You Hung builds happen for a myriad of reasons: race […]
The Atlassian party – QCon London 2012
Talks at technical conferences can give a very detailed insight into new innovations, they be a great source of inspiration and motivation. Sometimes they even make you giggle. At QCon London I got large doses of all of the above, thanks to Rich Hickey, Dan North (DWZ Trading), Colin Humpreys (Carrenza), Ade Oshineye (Google) and […]
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 a lifecycle that cleans up after themselves. Buy they do have a cost. If you instance is open to the wider web, the sessions can chew up memory and hence if there are 1000s of sessions it […]