Development
Hipchat add-ons to brighten your day
Add-ons don’t have to be all about ease and efficiency. Some of them aim to satisfy more intangible wants, such as a yen for spontaneity and wit. It so happens that the three add-ons for Hipchat we’d like to highlight today are all about bringing creative expression into the chat room. Take a minute to explore these great—free—add-ons, and keep them on hand for any time you want to drop a dollop of levity into the conversation.
Inside Atlassian: three steps for better sprint reviews
In the late afternoon on Fridays you can often hear clapping and cheering throughout the Atlassian office. Here, we work hard, play hard, and celebrate our successes in the form of sprint reviews. Sprint reviews are not retrospectives. A sprint review is about demonstrating the hard work of the entire team: designers, developers, and the product owner. At Atlassian we like to keep our sprint reviews casual. Team members gather around a desk for informal demos and describe the work they’ve done for that iteration. It’s a time to ask questions, try new features, and give feedback. Sharing in success is an important part of building an agile team.
Realtime updates from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch
The following is a repost of an article from my personal blog that describes how to perform event-driven updates from a PostgreSQL instance to Elasticsearch. In February I will be giving a tutorial at DeveloperWeek on development and testing with Docker, and this relies heavily on the code described in this post as an example project. So for consistency I […]
Stash on Docker
Docker has been moving at ‘lightning speed’ and has been adopted by software development teams all over the world. Since the beginning, we at Atlassian, have been very excited about the potential of Docker. In fact, we wrote early on how to run Java in a Docker container, and created an internal self-service model to deploy applications on our cloud using Docker containers. We also experimented early with containerizing our products (see our experiments on bitbucket). We have been big fans of Docker, and I am proud to serve on Docker’s Advisory Board.
Can better IT service improve software development?
With developers and IT teams working in separate systems, there are blind spots in the process. With no collaboration channel, IT teams don’t get the visibility and communication they need on fixes and improvements. Integrating service and development in one place makes critical feedback transparent, ensures uptime, increases value to the users, and improves the organization’s ability to collaborate.
Fisheye/Crucible 3.7: more powerful branch reviews
We’re proud to announce a new release of Fisheye and Crucible 3.7 today. With it, we’ve made branch reviews more powerful and automatic. This release also brings support to the latest versions of Git and Mercurial, and a variety of minor improvements and bug fixes.
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Getting to know io.js
Last week, Twitter was abuzz about an initial release of io.js. io.js is an npm compatible platform originally based on Node.js and is a fork of Joyent’s Node.js. Why fork Node.js? The io.js team is made up mostly of the key contributors to Node.js. In August, the team created Node Forward which was an attempt by the community […]
IT and development working better together with Jira Service Desk
Collaboration is near and dear to our hearts here at Atlassian. Collaboration, for us, is not just about sharing documents and communication in Hipchat and Confluence, but it’s in the DNA of all our products. In Jira Service Desk, Atlassian’s IT Service Desk offering, collaboration is critical to solving IT tickets faster.
Keeping master clean with Bamboo and LEDs
This is a guest post from David Cook–growth hacker at Jut, Atlassian alumnus, and possibly the fastest man on earth. A few months ago, we realized we had a problem with our automated builds in Bamboo. There were some tests that only ran on master, and developers would sometimes merge in a branch that had passed locally, but would […]
Get everyone on the same page with Jira Portfolio
Happy New Year! It’s time to dust off those running shoes and tackle your new year’s resolutions! Often, teams take the New Year as a time to assess, re-prioritize, and plan. Even when using an agile approach, there is still a need to project and forecast over a longer time period. The challenge is to combine both a long-term vision and frequent, continuous delivery along the way. Agile portfolio management helps to get everyone in the organization on the same page.
Fun Fridays: track New Year’s resolutions in Jira
Share your Minecraft world with a Google Map on AWS
Minecraft is one of my favorite video games of the last few years and if sales numbers are anything to go by, over 17 million other people agree with me! One of the great things about Minecraft is the permanence of your achievements; if you build something awesome out of Minecraft blocks, it becomes an indelible […]
