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What’s my role in Wikipatterns.com?
As Atlassian’s wiki evangelist, one of my main projects was launching Wikipatterns.com and helping it grow into a worthwhile, valuable resource for all wiki users.…
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Auto-linking interesting text in support cases
A lot of technical support work is basically pattern-matching, and memorizing. You see a stacktrace, remember vaguely having seen it before, and hunt around until…
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Six Days in a Leaky Boat
“It’s a fine line between pleasure and pain”, so sang the Divinyls. I can’t quite remember what the song was about, but they were probably…
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US Daylight Savings changes in 2007
In 2007, the US has planned a change to it’s daylight savings time schedule. This may cause problems with Java applications (such as Jira and…
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Bamboo 1.0 CI Server Released
Today we officially released Bamboo 1.0, our server software that automates the process of continuously building, integrating and testing software code. By automating the software…
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Bamboo Saves Jira a Headache
Last Friday a code check-in was made that made Jira functional tests fail only in Standard and Professional editions. If it was not for Bamboo,…
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Bamboo 1.0 Released
The Bamboo team is proud to announce the launch of Bamboo 1.0, Atlassian’s Continuous Integration and Build Telemetry Server. After much blood, sweat and beers…
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Integrating Crowd with Apache and Subversion
Internally we have started migrating most of our applications to use Crowd as a central location for authentication and authorization information along with single sign-on…
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How’s Wikipatterns.com doing?
Since announcing Wikipatterns on Wednesday, contributors have added 8 new patterns, growing from 29 to 37 patterns! Traffic on the site has tripled every day.…
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Portlets and Confluence
Recently, I was charged with the task of creating a portlet that would interact with Confluence. The idea was to see how difficult it is,…
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Using XMLTask for Maven and Ant
I just thought I should share this great little gem I stumbled across last week when I was faced with this Crowd Issue. After a…
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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…
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Introducing Wikipatterns.com
The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have…
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Introducing Wikipatterns.com
The biggest challenge you face after first deciding to use a wiki is getting all of your coworkers to use it too. Some organisations have…
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Preventing Concurrent Operations
Some operations you don’t want to run concurrently for various reasons. Here’s a simple technique for preventing them.