Announcing the Winners of Codegeist 2013!

We wrapped up the seventh iteration of Atlassian's add-on development contest, Codegeist, a few weeks ago. The contest ran from February 1 to May 31 and saw our developer ecosystem contribute close to 100 completely new add-ons to the Atlassian Marketplace. Devs could build whatever type of add-on they wanted–plugin, integration, client, mobile app, or anything else they could think of. The new add-ons cover the range of Atlassian products, from JIRA to Bamboo. More money was up for grabs

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DevOps & Distributed Teams

Soon after joining Atlassian about 18 months ago, it was clear that this is a DevOps-minded crew. Not that there's any coordinated effort around this. It's simply a group of people dedicated to continuously improving the ways we work in our respective expertise, and the ways we work together across teams. Last month, we launched the DevOps Dojo - a website sharing our thoughts on the cultural and technical aspects of adopting the DevOps way of developing software. We're far from having it all

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Get in the zone with distraction free editing

Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Youtube, Email and the guy who likes to tap you on the shoulder whenever he has a question. Work is full of distractions that often keep us from being as productive as we'd like. That's where Confluence comes in to help your team stay productive despite all the distractions. With features like Confluence WorkBox to save you from context-switching, and Blueprints to get you on the right path when creating content, Confluence keeps your team on track. But sometimes even in

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. When was the last time you used the "Quick Search" box in the top right corner of every screen in JIRA? If you're anything like me, you probably use it almost daily. The Quick Search box is commonly used to navigate directly to an issue or perform a free text search across all of JIRA. But the Quick Search box is much

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The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. We've got a great tip of the month for you! The GreenHopper team released a new feature in GreenHopper 6.1.2 to make it easier to work with sets of issues in Plan mode. You can now move issues between sprints and in the backlog using the right click context menu. Why is this cool? GreenHopper now gives the ability to move

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