On Conference Talks

My last few weeks have been consumed by conferences — hosting, attending, speaking at, and planning for. As a developer I appreciate not only great technical talks, but also great speakers who can deliver them. I’ve been attending (and sometimes speaking at) tech conferences since the late 90s, but it wasn’t until the Web 2.0 […]

European AtlasCampers Unite

I just arrived home from another awesome AtlasCamp, our annual  gathering for developers, add-on vendors, and interested customers. AtlasCamp was a bit different this year. For the first time around we hosted camp in a European city — Weisbaden, Germany. It turned out to be the best and biggest AtlasCamp we’ve had yet! We had over […]

Stable APIs? Yes, we have them.

I think we can all agree that building a software product is difficult. What’s even more difficult is maintaining it. It’s particularly difficult and frustrating when the APIs you’ve come to depend on change from under you. Changing APIs between minor releases negatively affects the developers who rely on it for their products, the customers […]

REST easy with Jira 5

Now that Jira 5 is out, let’s talk about one of my favorite features of this new release, Jira’s new REST API. Jira has supported remote APIs for many years with SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC. However, telling developers that you support SOAP (and only SOAP) is like saying that you like writing applications with COBOL — […]

Jira Development Cookbook — A book by Jobin Kuruvilla

Jobin Kuruvilla, an experienced Jira consultant and plugin developer, set out on the ambitious task to write a detailed and thorough book about Jira plugin development. The result? A well crafted 450+ page book that starts by introducing the reader to Atlassian’s plugin framework and ends with useful recipes usually gained only by weathered experience. […]