Archives for Charles Miller

Holding Aggro

A couple of months after I blogged about the role of the Disturbed in the Confluence team, it has come around to being my turn to take on the job. At stand-up this morning, we realised there's a pretty strong parallel between what the Disturbed does, and playing World of Warcraft.

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Still, distractions are inevitable, and problems that need a developer to help solve them will come up every day. A production system may run into trouble, another developer may need help with a hairy problem, a member of another team may want to know how your product solves a particular problem, and so on. At Atlassian, we try to manage these interruptions in two ways.

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Plugins 2.0: a heads-up

Confluence third-party developers are likely to start running into mentions of "Plugins 2.0" in existing code and in future milestone releases. As such, I thought it might be a good idea to give you a quick heads-up on what is happening in Atlassian HQ, and how this is going to affect plugin authors.

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