Monthly Archives: July 2007

DateFormat objects and thread-safety

One of my daily responsibilities is to look over the code that is checked into our JIRA source base. I look at every commit and check for any obvious mistakes, typos or things that can be instantly improved. I must admit that in recent months it was and still is quite hard to pick any obvious errors or coding mistakes from our JIRA code. I hardly get to find something major that I would need to report back to the author of that code check-in. Recently I blogged internally about some minor findings.

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OSGi Plugin for Struts 2: Lessons from Confluence

Confluence and JIRA have a great plugin system at their core that allows you to install collections of actions, Spring beans (Confluence), jobs, etc. as discrete plugins. Confluence supports hot-deploying these plugins so they can be added, removed, or upgraded without bringing down the application. This capability is so powerful that internally we are moving more and more functionality into plugins as a way to organise our codebase and keep it tightly-focused and agile. Wanting this same functionality

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Terence Parr on ANTLR presentation

Last month, Atlassian hosted Sydney's Java User Group meeting at our new offices in Sussex St. We were lucky enough to see a presentation by Terence Parr, the author of Antlr, a well-known tool for language parsing, compiling and much more. A video of the presentation is now available for download: Windows media format (WMV) (204 MB) Quicktime format (MP4) (211 MB) Thanks very much to Terence for his interesting presentation! Update: Terence has posted another video and a copy of his slides on antlr.org: Powerpoint

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Confluence 2.5.5 Released

Just a quick note to let you know Confluence 2.5.5 was just released. We recommend all our customers upgrade to this latest version as it resolves two security bugs. Where to next? Customers, view the release notes and upgrade now. Interested in learning more about the wiki? Visit our website, where you can download a free fully functional Confluence trial.

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Wiki Adoption Part 1: The Conversation is Key

Over the past several months I've been meeting with Atlassian's customers who are using Confluence in a variety of industries including technology, financial services, media, higher education, consulting & professional services, and as I do so I'm gathering an even wider ranging sense of how organizations are using wikis and learning how to change existing practices for the better. In the next few posts, I'll share some of my observations and ideas in hopes that they may help you with your

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