Building an Ecosystem for Hackers

A couple of weeks ago, I presented at QCon SF. My topic was on Building an Ecosystem for Hackers. It was a talk about how we empower our users (yes, users – who mostly happen to be developers) to hack on our products for fun and profit. The sentiment of the talk focused on the fact […]

Introducing the REST API Browser and the Atlassian Developer Toolbox

As a developer, it’s very rewarding to work with beautiful APIs that just work. Half the battle of building applications against 3rd party APIs is having clear and concise documentation that show great examples. However, sometimes documentation doesn’t go far enough. Sometimes, having a tool that allows you to “touch and feel” the API is […]

Time for your Checkup!

Plugin checkup, that is. We announced this at AtlasCamp a few weeks ago, but somehow forgot to blog about it… so here it is. checkup.atlassian.com is live! The Atlassian Plugin Checkup is a simple tool that give plugin developers the ability to validate a plugin against a wide array of Atlassian products/versions. The checkup will […]

New Plugin Development Hotness

A big focus at AtlasCamp last week was improving the productivity of plugin development. A few of the improvements in the latest Atlassian SDK (aka, AMPS, Atlassian Maven Plugin Suite) contribute a large part to improving the developer feedback loop. Before the latest SDK, developing a plugin usually consisted of the following steps: Download Atlassian […]

AtlasCamp #4 is History

I’m a new’ish Atlassian and this was my first AtlasCamp, but it felt like I’ve been to all four. This is a testament to how awesome the Atlassian community is. The Atlassian developer community is one of the warmest and friendliest developer communities I’ve come to know recently — and I’m not just saying that just because […]