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Pipelining the build for fun and profit
Atlassian developers are pretty big fans of Continuous Integration, and none more so than the Jira developers. We have in excess of 4000 acceptance tests, each of which restores a full database backup before going off and testing some aspect of Jira. Having this many tests gives us a lot of confidence that we haven’t […]
(Case Study) OpenDNS on Atlassian Software Development Tools
Founded: 2005 HQ: San Francisco, CA Employees: 40 Products: Jira, GreenHopper, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible The Domain Name System (DNS) is the “phone book” for the internet which translates human-friendly hostnames, like www.atlassian.com, into meaningful IP addresses which the web uses. Can you imagine having to remember something like 208.67.220.220 just to get to a single […]
Let the Developer Party Begin: AtlasCamp 2011 Save the Date
Well everyone, it’s that time of year again when us devs head down to beautiful Half Moon Bay, California for 2.5 days of developer goodness. We’re excited to ask you to save the date for AtlasCamp 2011, our worldwide developer conference, on September 28-30, 2011. Anyone who has ever been to AtlasCamp will tell you […]
Jira 4.4 Sneak Peek – the new Upgrader
My previous post provided a sneak peak of a new installer for Linux. This post will cover the new upgrade capability for the installer. In the past, upgrading Jira took a bit of time, including a number of manual steps when config files were customised. For Jira 4.4, we’ve designed a new upgrade wizard from […]
10 reasons Why You Should Try Team Calendars
Released on June 6th, 2011, Team Calendars was built from the ground up for collaborative teams that use Confluence – connecting your people, projects, and content. In this post I’ll highlight 10 features that make Team Calendars a great solution for scheduling your team’s leave, tracking your projects, and planning your events.
Agile Best Practices Panel Discussion – Atlassian Summit 2011
Atlassian Summit 2011 was action packed with news and announcements. In case you missed any part of it, we’ve made nearly every Summit 2011 session available for you watch online. Agile Best Practices We know that no two teams are exactly alike, so we’ve assembled a panel of great dev team leads to answer questions […]
A Simple Jira Plugin Using UAL
I’m going to show you how to create a simple Atlassian Plugin, using the Application Links API. The plugin will be a Jira Custom Field. Prerequisites Get the Atlassian Plugin SDK. Create a skeleton Jira plugin. I called mine jira-external-issue-plugin. Set up your IDE. Create the custom field See here for specifics. Your atlassian-plugin.xml should […]
Atlassian invests in Cloud9 IDE
In case you didn’t hear, Atlassian has made a big first investment in another company: Cloud9, a SaaS-based IDE platform. SaaS for software development, or if you want to get fancy, DaaS — development as a service — is growing fast. No longer just for open source projects, SaaS tools, be it code hosting or […]
Helping You Prepare for Confluence 4.0
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you may have heard that we are delivering a faster, richer, and more reliable editing experience in Confluence 4.0. We understand the enormity of this change for your user-base and we want you to know that we are working really hard to provide you with all the resources you’ll need to make sure your transition to Confluence 4.0 is a smooth one. Whether you are a Confluence Administrator, User, or Plugin Developer, we’ve got your back.
Jira State of the Union – Atlassian Summit 2011
Atlassian Summit 2011 was action packed with news and announcements. In case you missed any part of it, we’ve made nearly every Summit 2011 session available for you watch online. What’s new in the world of Jira This year’s Jira State of the Union, Bryan Rollins and I covered all of great stuff we have been working […]
Better Together: Jira and Xobni
For those of you still using Outlook to manage your email (no judgement), things just got a lot better: Jira now integrates with Xobni to let you view updates and edit your issues directly within your inbox. With the Jira gadget in Xobni you can: View real-time issue status/details without switching to your browser Make […]
Getting your plugin ready for Jira 4.4
In Jira 4.4 we made some significant changes to the admin UI to improve navigation and general layout of the admin section in Jira. All admin items have been re-grouped in a more logical manner and we’ve added quicknav to make it easy to navigate to an admin section from anywhere in Jira. Jira 4.4 […]
Powerful new pull request on Bitbucket
Atlassian’s free DVCS code hosting site Bitbucket has release brand spanking new pull requests! Pull requests make it dead simple for contributors to: fork a favorite repo make a change request a merge from their fork As a repo owner, pull requests let you: Promote new code contributions Do simple code reviews Trigger single-click merge […]
Coming Soon – A Faster, Richer, More Reliable WYSIWYG Editor
Confluence 4.0 will deliver a brand-new editor that’s bound to wet the appetites of both new and power users. From the slick new intuitive interface, to revolutionary features like Autoformatting, the new Confluence editor is designed to help users of any level create and discover rich wiki content, faster than ever before.