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Charles Miller

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Atlassian Wiki Usage Statistics

A commenter on a previous blog post asked how much use the Atlassian internal wiki gets. I have no idea if these statistics will be interesting to anyone, but somebody asked, right? A bit of background first. Our internal Confluence instance has been running since late 2003, back when Atlassian had a staff count in […]

response.sendError() vs response.setStatus()

In the Servlet 2.4 specification, response.sendError() and response.setStatus() are treated differently. The former redirects you to the configured error page, but the latter still assumes that you’re going to be providing the response yourself:

My God, it's full of stars.

It’s only a matter of time before we pick up some bones and attack the Bamboo team.

Fix your builds, the easy way!

Like the Jira team, the Confluence team has a screen set up to monitor the health of our Bamboo builds. Unfortunately we we’ve been having a nightmare of a time keeping them green. Lateral thinking to the rescue!

ShipIt V: Staging Plugin

A month or two ago, in response to the fact that a lot of people use Confluence to create documentation, and are asking for particularly un-wiki-like features like workflow and approval, I wrote up a more collaboration-friendly spec for a Document Staging plugin. This plugin would allow people to collaborate on documentation in one space and then publish it to another space when it was ready.