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Atlassian Bonfire for Jira – Try the beta, win a t-shirt
As we announced at Summit 2011, the beta release of Bonfire for Jira is available for you to try out for FREE! We would love to get your feedback to help make the product even better, so we have a little incentive for you.. read on. Still haven’t tried Bonfire? What are you waiting for? It […]
Improvements to the Plugin Exchange for Plugin Developers
As part of the Atlassian Developer Relations Team’s goal to make our plugin developers successful, we’re pleased to share with you several small improvements we’ve made to the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. We’re confident that many of these features will help your plugins on the exchange get more usage. Take a look. Plugins Just Got Social […]
Better Plugin Administration with the Universal Plugin Manager 1.5
The Universal Plugin Manager (UPM) is a tool we’ve created to help you discover, install and manage plugins. We announced the UPM about a year ago, and with the newest release of Bamboo 3.1 the UPM is now bundled and shipping with our entire pluggable product portfolio. The UPM has come a long way since […]
JAX Innovation Awards: vote for Atlassian!
The kind guys at JAX, the premier Java, Architecture & Agile experience, recently nominated Atlassian for their ‘Most Innovative Java Company’ award, which will be handed out at their upcoming conference from June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. However tough the competition may be, the JAX peeps have already pretty much nailed the reasons to vote […]
Sponsor announcements at Summit: a Recap
We made a lot of announcements at Summit, and so too did many of our lovely sponsors. If you’re interested in Atlassian plugins, add-ons and product integrations, then you should get your mouse poised to click on some of these puppies: CustomWare, the Summit platinum sponsor, made two announcements: A Get Satisfaction + CustomWare + […]
Faster Bamboo builds with the Agent Smith Wallboard
With the Jira Bugfix effort using Kanban, we track a metric called Lead Time, which in our case is the period of time between the moment Atlassian decides to implement a fix (or feature) to the time it is made available to the customer. Adapting Kaizen, the culture of continous improvement, we look for waste […]
Confluence 4.0 Early Access Now Available
In case you weren’t at Atlassian Summit last week, we announced the first public milestone of Confluence 4.0 through our Early Access Program (EAP). We are all really excited about this release and can’t wait to hear from you.
Printing Post-it notes of Jira Issues
I previously blogged about how I used a personal Kanban board to keep track of issues that could potentially be fixed during bugfix iterations. My bugfix tour of duty is coming to a close with the release of Jira 4.3.4, here’s how the board of issues looked at the end of my final release: […]
Summit 2011 Wrap Up
It’s a wrap! Atlassian Summit 2011 is over, the goat has gone home to graze and the Atlassian Summit sherpas drank one last beer before descending the mountain of a very successful conference (yes, we will stretch this metaphor as long as possible). First of all, big thanks to everyone who made this event fantastic […]
Jira supporting change in the Eclipse community
Last week, the Eclipse Foundation has released the results of the Eclipse Community Survey 2011. It’s really interesting to see how the Eclipse community uses Eclipse and other software development tools. As you would expect, open source tools dominate the responses in almost every category except, of course, for one.. Jira for Change Management It’s […]
Unified AppLinks: Integration without the Hassle – Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we were introduced to Unified AppLinks, saw how to consume AppLinks as a plugin, and saw how to extend AppLinks to create our own custom application types and entity types to integrate with. In this final blog post we will see what’s involved in implementing a custom authentication […]
Better Together: Jira and Bitbucket
As we announced at Atlassian Summit 2011 last week, Jira now integrates with Bitbucket to let you do more with your source code. The Jira Bitbucket Connector lets you: Track your changesets, monitor your source code edits, and drill through to your source files Push your changesets to Jira simply by referencing issue keys in […]
Unified AppLinks: Integration without the Hassle – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog post series, I introduced Unified AppLinks and motivations behind it, and also showed how simple it is for plugin developers to consume user configured AppLinks to make authenticated requests on remote services. In this post, we will look at how to extend AppLinks to implement our own application types to […]
Summit 2011: Day 3
The sun has set on another Atlassian Summit. And we had a rocking good time. It wasn’t just the song-and-dance number this morning (“Oh whoa whoa whoa, Summit Nights, had me a blast”), Darth Vader’s deft control of the Atlassian Wallboards, the Oprah moment when attendees found a free pass to Atlassian University, the dozens […]
Direct from Summit 2011 – Jira 4.4 Beta1 available for download
As announced at Atlassian Summit 2011 earlier this week, we’re very excited to announce the availability of Jira 4.4 Beta1 via the Early Access Program. The Jira development team has been hard at work on our biggest release yet, and there are tons of awesome new features to check out! Administrator Luv The admin experience have […]