Monthly Archives: February 2011

Confluence 3.5 is just around the corner! We've already told you why administrators will be jumping for joy and some of the small improvements on the way, but since our last release we've been working really hard to improve how users create, share and discover content in Confluence. There's a bunch of exciting new features, but let's focus on two that will help users discover content that's relevant to them.

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Plugin Architecture, Episode IV ("A New Hope")

Hi all, I'm starting a new, four part blog series today on plugin architecture. Like all good series, I'm going to start with Episode IV, and it'll probably jump the shark when it finally hits Episode I. We'll see, I guess. In this series, we're going to create a search plugin that works across all Atlassian products. In the process, we're going to hit a lot of different areas of the platform, including various plugin module types, the Shared Access Layer (SAL) and the Atlassian User Interface

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Release Management with JIRA and Bamboo

Our recent acquisition of SysBliss brought two new plugins into the Atlassian family, and we're making them available for free. The JIRA Workflow Designer plugin helps you visualize and edit your JIRA workflows using standard diagramming concepts. The Bamboo Release Management plugin combines the version management of JIRA with the automated build capabilities of Bamboo to complete your release workflow. These plugins give JIRA users an opportunity to customize their workflow in minutes

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Navigate Your Entire Wiki with SharePoint Connector 1.3

Available for download today, the latest version of the SharePoint Connector for Confluence adds new features and enhancements that strengthen the integration and user experience between the two applications.

  1. Browse entire Confluence spaces without leaving SharePoint
  2. Embed threaded discussions from Confluence in SharePoint
  3. Search SharePoint from any themed Confluence space
  4. Row-level security for SharePoint lists in Confluence pages

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Marketing Advice for Startups and Small Teams

Many of you probably know that Atlassian has a collection of awesome, powerful plugins, most of which are built and maintained by members of our ecosystem, not Atlassian. Members of our ecosystem are typically smaller development shops, composed almost entirely of engineers. Shortly after I started at Atlassian I was approached by Dan Hardiker of Adaptavist, one of our largest ecosystem members. Dan was eager to learn how Adaptavist could sell more plugins. And Dan isn't the only member of our ecosystem

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