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Developer Lives Saved with Portal Device
Science tells us that when a software developer goes head to head with a moving car, the car wins. This is getting expensive for us, and so the lab boys have come up with a better way. We’ve installed portals in our two office locations in Sydney here at the Atlassian Software Enrichment Centre, saving […]
Spot the Difference in Confluence 4.1
One of my favorite games as a kid was ‘Spot the Difference’. I loved scouring pictures for minute details and deviations. With all the new features coming in Confluence 4.1, it only seemed natural to create our own version. Now’s your chance to spot all the new features coming your way tomorrow in Confluence 4.1! Spot the difference! […]
Making Bonfire, Part I
This guest blog post is part of an Atlassian blog series raising awareness about testing innovation within the QA community. You can find the other posts in this series under the QA Innovation tag. At the Atlassian Summit in June this year we announced Bonfire, a tool for rapid bug reporting and session-based testing. In the five months since […]
$63,210, 100 Moustaches & an Oompa Loompa
A record 100 Atlassian’s grew a moustache during the month of November to heighten awareness for men’s health issues. Collectively they raised US $31,605 along the way in support of inspiring initiatives in Sydney, San Francisco, and Amsterdam. Thanks to matching from the Atlassian Foundation we’ll be donating a grand total of US $63,210. Not […]
You’ve got issues! Now you can collect them.
Raising issues in Jira is generally pretty straightforward if you have an account and are already logged in to Jira. It becomes quite a pain however if you’re noticing a bug on a remote site somewhere and want to raise a bug in a Jira instance that you’re not currently logged in to or don’t […]
(Guest blog) Gliffy is Spreading Holiday Cheer to Atlassian’s Community License Holders
This is a guest blog post by Debi Kohlhardt at Gliffy, an Atlassian plugin partner. Gliffy allows companies to create engaging, collaborative flow charts and diagrams in both Jira and Confluence. The holidays are approaching and what better time than now to spread holiday cheer? Staying in line with Atlassian’s spirit of giving, Gliffy is looking […]
New Jira 5.0 tutorials from the Atlassian doc sprint
The Atlassian technical writers and thirteen developers recently combined forces in a doc sprint. The aim? To develop plugin tutorials that will help people use the upcoming Jira 5.0 Java APIs. The result is eleven shiny new tutorials and plenty of updates to existing pages. The indomitable doc sprinters were based in Sydney, San Francisco and […]
3 New Wiki Shortcuts to Save You Time – Coming Soon in Confluence 4.1
Is it just me or is there something in the air this week with all the talk of the upcoming release of Confluence 4.1? Ryan shared a new feature that’s sure to spark everyone’s creative flare to spice their pages with professional image effects. Matt highlighted 5 more improvements on the way. Now it’s my turn […]
Plan an Awesome Holiday Party with Confluence and Team Calendars
There are two groups of people when it comes to throwing an awesome holiday office party. I know you’re thinking it’s those that drink too much egg nog and those that don’t – but it’s a little deeper than that. There’s one group that plans the party and one that attends it. The latter group […]
There’s Something for Everyone in Confluence 4.1 – Coming Soon
Who doesn’t like a big Christmas stocking packed with goodies? It’s the season of giving and next week you’ll be able to rip open Confluence 4.1 and get your paws on all the new features packed into this big release. Ryan already peeled back the covers on Image Effects – in this post I’ll give […]
(Case Study) Eli Lilly Employees Come Together Through “Innovation Days” to Solve High Level Issues
Last week we launched our ShipIt Day “In the Wild” series, if you will, highlighting some of the amazing work happening at other companies through similar programs. Our first interview featured Lateral, a Romanian design and technology company, that showed us how influential ShipIt Day can be in shaping a company’s culture and injecting a […]
Running a User Group? Mix it up with a Q&A Panel
A couple of weeks ago we held the Sydney Atlassian User Group. As always, we had a great turn out with over 40 attendees. In past user groups we would usually have a mix of customer presentations, Atlassian product updates and would break up into Birds of Feathers sessions. This user group, we decided to […]
Atlassian Europe enthusiasts, Unite!
For the first time ever, join us for a full-day conference in London, Paris or Frankfurt! Atlassian Unite will bring together users from all over Europe to hear and participate in discussions about Atlassian products, plugins, use cases, and best practices. There will also be plenty of time for socializing, and meeting Atlassian team members […]
Pimp Your Images – Available First in Confluence OnDemand
Confluence 4.1 is just around the corner and we’ve got heaps of new features we can’t wait to show you. In the past we had to wait for a major product release like 4.1 to get new features into your hands. But with the power of our new SaaS platform, we’re now able to bring you new […]
The Bamboo Task Master Challenge – The Winner
The Bamboo Task Master Challenge provided the community with some great new Bamboo Task plugins, but there could only be one winner. The Task Master The winner, the champ, the Bamboo Task Master is… This was a very close vote and a huge congrats goes out to Maxim Kuzmich and the Stiltsoft team. What does […]