Development
Learning Go with flashcards and spaced repetition
This year I have been choosing Go for all my coding projects. Go is brilliantly fast, simple to pick up, it has a powerful concurrency model based on message passing, and no forced – always on – object orientation. My impressions are similar to the ones many have previously articulated well – for example see “Go is unapologetically flawed…” […]
Hipchat helps Code.org turn an Hour of Code into a lifetime of know-how
Code.org is a nonprofit dedicated to expanding computer science in schools in over 180 countries around the world. “We started out making a simple one-hour tutorial called the Hour of Code to get every single student in the whole world to try for at least one hour.” – Hadi Partovi, CEO With Code.org’s success, courses now reach over 100 million students, and Hipchat is how they stay connected with employees and volunteers.
Connecting multiple accounts on Hipchat is here
We’re excited to announce that you can now log in to multiple Hipchat accounts from one app, so you can work with all of the teams across your network. Whether you have different accounts for different departments, or you work extensively with clients outside of your company, Hipchat helps everyone work better together. Agencies, consultants, freelancers, and collaborative superheroes rejoice!
Multiexcerpt plugin for Confluence: when once is not enough
Featured add-on: Multiexcerpt Plugin – Select multiple excerpts across a page or across different spaces and recombine them to aggregate your content the way you want. You want to display content from one page onto another page? Confluence makes that easy. But what if you’re a super-user and want to pull together excerpts from multiple pages or […]
The challenges of scaling software development teams globally: pt. 1
Atlassian is a unique software company: we use our own products just as much as our 40,000+ customers do. And like so many of our customers, we experience the same growing pains that many software companies face, especially when it comes to scaling. Why? Because Atlassian went from one small team in Sydney, to over 1,300 people […]
Tempo Books: new professional services automation add-on for Jira
This April, Tempo released Tempo Books, a modern and flexible professional services solution on top of Jira. Tempo Books for Jira is built on years of experience and customer feedback. As a result, our add-on is designed to address the unique requirements of professionals using Jira and Jira Agile for their sold services and client projects.
The power of Git subtree
Git subtree allows you to insert any repository as a sub-directory of another one. It is one of several ways Git projects can manage project dependencies. People with good memory will remember I wrote about the usage and the advantages of the command in an earlier piece on Git submodule alternatives. The basics of Git subtree Let’s review […]
Tips for agile product management
At Atlassian, we pride ourselves on building great products. We rely on our fantastic product managers and product owners to lead the product design process. We’re also strong advocates of agile methodologies for software development, and love to share what we learn about agile with all of you. We’re excited to bring it all together […]
Automated Work Log for Jira: keeping time so you don’t have to
You’ve been working through an issue all morning and you suddenly realize you forgot to log the time you started. Oops. If you’re like a lot of people who can’t even remember what they had for breakfast, keeping track of a precise start time can feel hopeless. Automated Work Log for Jira, from Gebsun Support, may not spark your memory, but it could save your bacon next time.
Inside Atlassian: how the Portfolio for Jira team uses Portfolio for Jira
Long-term planning and agile: is it really possible? Even when using an agile approach, there’s still a need to forecast over a long time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. We tend to find that a lot of teams using Jira are actually tracking their long-term plans […]
Assign, discuss, done: more Jira + Hipchat goodness
Together, Jira and Hipchat eliminate shoulder tapping while ensuring that agile teams can collaborate and communicate in real-time. Team members get the information they want, when and where they want it. Does it get any better than that?
Confluence 101: the 5 things I wish I knew sooner about creating pages
Here are five great tips for creating Confluence pages that I’ve learned (and wish I knew sooner) while using Confluence as the primary tool for working with my team.
Jira Portfolio: the fundamentals
Getting started with anything new can be tricky, but getting the fundamentals right makes it a lot easier! For Jira Portfolio, the fundamentals begin with initiatives and themes, so we’ll start with those. Introducing initiatives We talk lots about initiatives and how they give you that cross-team and cross-project view, but what are they, actually? Initiatives are […]
How to be a super user when working with Atlassian Support
If you’re an Atlassian customer and have ever needed to contact Atlassian Support for your queries/issues, then read on… Have you wondered why your conversation seemed less effective while other customers are going ga-ga over Atlassian support? Do you feel it takes a while for investigation on an issue to take flight? Do you feel that you need to answer a number of questions every time before getting the answer for yours? Before we get into the details of why you may feel this way, lets take a look at some fun facts…
Confluence 101: using pages (so the dog can’t eat your homework)
The second Confluence 101 article talks about creating content with pages. It’s meant to give you the foundation necessary for confidence and success creating useful Confluence pages. The article covers the basic concepts of pages, some best practices, and tips and tricks.