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Jon Silvers

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Memphis-area JUG

Java developers in the Memphis area should check out the upcoming first meeting of the Memphis/Mid-South JUG taking place on September 20th. Atlassian is sponsoring the group with a free Community license of Confluence and some Atlassian shirts are being shipped out next week. Learn more about the Memphis/Mid-South JUG. (Jonathan, you’ll be happy to […]

OpenID and Crowd SSO: TheServerSide Video Tech Brief

The ServerSide’s Eugene Ciurana interviewed Justen Stepka, Atlassian’s lead developer of Crowd, at The Ajax Experience in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. Justen discusses how Crowd came about, how the new OpenID capability of Crowd 1.1 works, why OpenID is relevant to companies (esp. versus other standards like SAML), and what developers should know […]

Getting Started on Confluence: Documentation for Beginners

Wikis have become huge phenomenon for businesses for collaboration because of their simplicity and ease of use, Confluence being no exception to this. But not all customers would immediately agree that their users are ready for a wiki, or for that matter, most web-based applications. Being in the business of selling a wiki, it’s easy […]

USC Confluence: A Campus-Wide Academic Wiki

Tommi Rantanen published some sobering thoughts on the topic of Finland: not the promised land of technology on his Endless lesson blog (nice title, by the way). What caught my eye was the reference to a PDF from USC on their use of Confluence campus-wide. The PDF is a case study published by Educause. Some […]

Welcome, Cenqua

Today we put out an announcement on Business Wire that Cenqua and Atlassian are teaming up. More technically, Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. As of today you can purchase Fisheye, Crucible, and Clover on www.atlassian.com. We’re really excited, not only because we’ve gained three fantastic products— products that assist us with our own software development— but […]