Monthly Archives: September 2009

Codegeist IV: Release Early, Release often

We've got a bit over a week left in Codegeist IV. With over $50k in cash and prizes up for grabs, there's a lot riding on this contest. We've already seen the first few entries go up on the Entries page. I just wanted to take a second to encourage everyone to get your entries posted as soon as you can. I know that there's a rather overwhelming bias toward procrastination here, but let me urge you to try to overcome that tendency. As I said last year: The plugins that were submitted early had the

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Using ClearCase? Check out our FishEye & Crucible Early Access Programs!

We are pleased to announce that an alpha release of FishEye and Crucible with support for IBM Rational ClearCase is now available for download via Atlassian's early access program (EAP). By introducing support for ClearCase in FishEye we also make is possible to leverage Crucible to perform code reviews on top of code residing in ClearCase. We are very interested in your feedback on this alpha release. To obtain the alpha release visit our EAP download pages: FishEye EAP download Crucible EAP download Check

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Creating a Personal 'Dashboard'

The Formula: personal space + macros + =widgets = your own personal 'dashboard' Confluence has a great Global Dashboard that gives you an overview of the site's most recent activity and access to all the spaces you have the permission to see. It's the first page you see when you login and it gives you the flexibility to filter it's content by your favourite spaces. Wouldn't it be great if you could add some more personalised information to the Dashboard? Hell yeah! I'm going to show you how you can

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Did you miss our 8-part Bamboo customer story series?

Earlier this year, John Ferguson Smart of Wakaleo Consulting wrote a great series of posts with interesting customer use cases involving Bamboo for continuous integration. Did you miss it? No worries, here are links to the series, in it's entirety! Bamboo Customer Stories (1/8): Johan's Outsourcing Blues Bamboo Customer Stories (2/8): Aligning work habits Bamboo Customer Stories (3/8): Lightning fast notification Bamboo Customer Stories (4/8): Driving quality with hyper complex distributed builds Bamboo

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Writing Plugins in Scala

Why Scala? Scala is currently gaining a lot of traction in the Java community, for a number of reasons. Twitter replaced it's Ruby-based messaging backbone with one written in Scala. It also has a lot going for it as a language, and also compiles to bytecode just as Java does (Martin Odersky wrote both the Scala compiler and the current javac reference compiler). What does this language have over Java? There's a lot, and some of it certainly looks fairly strange compared to Java. Examples of some

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