Codegeist Submissions
Just a quick note to plugin developers: don’t forget to submit the plugins you’re working on now to Codegeist. You can publish them, share and collaborate (up to 3 developers) and let the community download and use them. And you can still submit them to the Codegeist Competition. Any plugin that was first released after […]
Announcing Atlassian Codegeist
Win up to $5,000; 8 weeks to build the coolest plugin That’s right, people. It’s time to show us your stuff. We’re announcing Atlassian Codegeist: our first, official plugin competition. We’re giving away fabulous cash and prizes to the person or team who comes up with the coolest, most useful, most elegant plugin for either […]
The devil is in the details
After a recent discussion about licenses in relation to a new Confluence plugin, I thought a quick post to the developer blog on the subject might be useful. Because Confluence and Jira and not themselves GPL’d, you should not release your plugins under the GPL. The GPL is incompatible with being plugged into non-OS products, […]
Taking control of Jira
I liked to think that Jira has a pretty excellent UI. It’s what originally attracted me to the product when I purchased it for the first time (back when I was a customer instead of an employee). But there are always places where things could be improved, as Leonard Lin showed us this week. He […]
New Excel Macro
With the new Excel Macro, you can now attach an Excel spreadsheet to your Confluence page and have the table data show up as page content.
Confluence Calendar Plugin
I’m pleased to announce the imminent release of the Confluence Calendar Plugin (RC1).
Watch out for falling User Objects
Changes are afoot in the Confluence codebase for the upcoming AtlassianUser library. There are a few things that are important for you, as plugin developers, to know.
More mail in your inbox!
I’ve set up a new mailing list for the Developer Network Subversion repository. We’re using SVN-Notify to email any commit to the repository out to the list along with a nice HTML diff of the change. If you’re interested in keeping up with what’s happening in the repository (and there’s been quiet a bit lately), […]
The Economics of Bug-fixing
Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d best make sure that the benefit of fixing a bug outweighs the cost of doing so.
What’s new in the world of Plugins
We have a very generous community of people around Jira &Confluence who have been willing to share their development efforts with the rest of us. So we wanted to stop and highlight some the great work that our Developer Network is doing to extend and enhance the products during the last few weeks. Confluence Chart […]
Confluence Chart Plugin
David Petersen just contributed a great new plugin for Confluence: the Chart Plugin.
How much do you spend in meetings, exactly?
And every time any of his co-workers went to a meeting, they each created an issue with a one-line description of the meeting and logged how much time the meeting took — every participant, every minute.
All I want for Christmas is a new Plugin
I’ve just created a new page in the Atlassian Developer Network called the Plugin Wishlist.
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