A subtle ploy
One of the tricky parts of introducing a wiki into an organisation is getting people in the habit of using it. Here’s one way Atlassian promoted the wiki internally.
Zombies recommended
A little-known feature in Confluence is that it provides suggested labels when you are editing content or open the label edit controls at the top of a page. But sometimes these suggestions can be a little unexpected.
Bidi quirkiness
We’ve had a longstanding feature request for Arabic and Hebrew support in Confluence. Although pages can be written in any language, our UI didn’t support internationalisation until 2.2, and it still doesn’t have the flexibility to be easily adapted for right-to-left (RTL) languages. Google in RTL script And even though you could write a page […]
Using Jira for support
There’s a few neat things about using Jira for support. We’re eating our own dogfood, as the saying goes, by using our own software day-to-day. Email notification of events is the main way we keep track of what’s happening, and Jira is great for that. But what I like most is the configurable dashboard, which […]