SVN Scheduled Maintenance Tonight
The Atlassian Developer Network SVN server is going offline tonight for about 3.5 hours for scheduled maintenance. The outage will last from 3am until 7.30am Pacific time. If you have any problems or questions, please contact me directly.
Confluence adoption in the trenches
Simon posts a terrific article about driving Confluence adoption in his consulting firm. There are some really good tips in here about the techniques he’s used to introduce his colleagues to the wiki. Many suggestions are similar to ones you’ll find in the WikiPatterns site. My favourite tip is: Set up WebDAV – it is […]
Jira Voters and Watchers plugin
Just a quick note to let you know that I upgraded the Jira Voters and Watchers plugin so that it is now compatible with Jira 3.7 (and hopefully 3.8 when it comes out). Voters and Watchers adds some custom fields that make it easier to vote on issues in bulk, and shows you who else […]
Do your math homework in Confluence
Me, I pretty much hated math in high school. But apparently lots of other people really like it. In fact, they like math so much that they want to put it in Confluence. Formulae, equations, diagrams, you name it. This is has been one of our more popular requests for a while. I guess it […]
New Plugin Library Homepages
With as many plugins as we have these days, the plugin library homepages were starting to get a little out of hand. So I decided to simplify things a little bit and simultaneously highlight some of our most valuable plugins. Here’s the old and new: Confluence Old Confluence New Jira Old Jira New We now […]
Recommended upgrade to the Plugin Repository Client
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we’ve released a small upgrade (1.3.1) to the Plugin Repository Client. The new version recognizes the Atlassian-bundled plugins and does not attempt to uninstall them. (Confluence doesn’t allow it, and attempting to do so caused errors.) We recommend this upgrade for everyone using the plugin repository. […]
Changes to plugin storage in Confluence 2.3
Confluence 2.3’s major new feature was Massive, the Confluence clustering solution. However, turning Confluence into a clustered app introduced some fairly fundamental changes into our architecture. For example, since there may be many, separate Confluence Massive nodes on physically separated servers, we can no longer use the filesystem for storage and must instead push all […]
Jira + Version Control: Two great tastes
Many of Jira’s users are software developers, and most of them also use version control software. (If you’re working on a software project and you’re not using version control, you should be. It’s question #1 on the Joel Software Test.) We are heavy users of CVS and Subversion ourselves. Several years ago, when we wanted […]
Library Updates
We know that plugin developers often make use of the third-party libraries that we ship with Confluence — things like the Apache Commons libraries, or joda-time. However, given the effort involved in upgrading, we don’t always ship the most-recent versions of those 3rd party libraries. In fact, we usually take an “if it ain’t broke” […]
Another tool in the toolbox
Running a large, public instance of Confluence can be a challenge in one respect: dealing with spam. Spammers are constantly looking for any indexed site from which they can squeeze another ounce of Google-juice. We’ve been dealing with this problem for a while. We released the CAPTCHA feature for Confluence back in 2.2. And we […]
Gliffy!
I’m happy to announce the official release of the terrific new Gliffy plugin for Confluence. If you’ve been watching the Confluence mailing lists, you will have seen the beta announcements for this plugin over the last couple of months, but this is the real, 1.0 release — just in time for Confluence 2.3. The Gliffy […]
Resource for theme developers
I spent a few minutes today and knocked up a Confluence space that demonstrates all of the basic rendering functionality. Headlines, lists, images, tables, etc. Why would I do that, you ask? Well, for the benefit of our tiny horde of theme developers. The idea is that one can import this space into Confluence, and […]
Atlassian User Groups head to Europe
Heads up to everyone in Europe. We’re planning two more Atlassian Users’ Groups next month. On December 12th we’ll be London and in December 18th will be in Karlsruhe, Germany. Follow the links for details. Just like last time, these meetups are open to anyone interested in Atlassian and our products: developers, customers, or potential […]
Confluence on Rails
Matt Zukowski of Encore just posted a new Rails plugin that simplifies using Confluence’s XML-RPC interface. Having used Rails myself for some fun programming, I can attest at how easy it is to get an app up and running. It’s a perfect medium for creating lightweight software to meet the needs of agile teams. And […]
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