Archives for Dylan Etkin

Atlassian "Fedex Day" VI

Here at Atlassian we have just finished up our sixth edition of "Fedex Day". What is it? For those who don't know, "Fedex Day" is Atlassian's irregular answer to Google 20% time: time set aside for developers to work on whatever they want with a skew towards our products. We tend to run "Fedex" with a fairly open format you can do whatever you want as long as you can somehow relate it to our products. We have expanded it such that we set aside 1 1/2 days for the developers to complete their

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Fedex5 – Chat Interface to JIRA

Sometimes you just want to quickly comment on an issue or check its status and you don't want to open a browser window, browse to the issue, enter the text, click submit, etc... Thus, the chat interface to JIRA was born. My fedex project was to create a plugin that would allow JIRA to listen via XMPP based Chat for different commands. The command structure was: <command> [OPTIONAL ISSUE KEY] body The commands, with a bit more tweeking are meant to be plugable, at the moment they are about an

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Opacity css seems to kill performance in Firefox 2 under Linux

So I was working on the charting plugins new search request view popup where, when we popup the chart, we try to be all sexy and fade the background to a slightly transparent black that makes the popup look very modal. The good news is that it looks very swank, the bad news is that on my machine every time I click it my CPU usage jumps to about 50% and my machine become unresponsive. I know sometimes there is a stability/performance trade off for good looks, just ask Jens with his whining mac book,

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Ajax bug in Opera 9 and 9.0.1, fixed in 9.0.2

In my adventures with the new charting plugin search request view I discovered a nasty little bug yesterday. If you are making an Ajax request and the result of that request is a redirect Opera 9 and 9.0.1 will not automatically follow the redirect and fill the result with the contents of the redirected request. Instead it will provide you with a response with an empty body and a response status of 302. All other tested browsers, firefox, safari, IE, will actually follow the redirect and the response

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