Archives for Daniel Freeman

Getting Approval Has Never been Easier!!!!!

If you need workflow processes for software release cycles, content publishing, or management approvals, there is a great Confluence plugin to learn about. Roberto from ComalaTech just announced the new Approvals Worklow plugin 2.0. My excitement about this plugin is a complete personal transformation. A few years back, a former employer subjected me to having an approval role in a custom developed Lotus Notes database approval process. The application rarely worked, had a kludgy GUI and was

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Technology Populism, Moral Indignation and The Rise of Atlassian

Here at Atlassian, we get quizzed by the press on a daily basis on the secrets of our success. Peter Dorfman wrote a great blog post this week about his personal experiences which really explains our success perfectly. Peter's comments about his interactions with our wiki product, Confluence, speak volumes to the following trends we see in our overall customer interactions. Technology Populism Whether you are talking about babies adopting iPhones or adults implementing enterprise software, some

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Ruby and Bamboo Unite

Did you know that Ruby developers can use Bamboo for continuous integration? I called Crossroads to gauge their experiences on moving to Bamboo 2.1. They kick off builds with each commit, have 15 active projects and nearly 100 developers using Bamboo, but I was most fascinated that they are a Ruby shop. Besides Ant & Maven, we had builders for .Net and Python (PHP is on the way...), but Ruby? The guys at Crossroads told me how he was about to go with another CI server until he read Nick Sieger's

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Zend and The Art of Software Maintenance

Wil Sinclair from the Zend Framework contacted us a few weeks ago to let us know how he is using Atlassian products. Zend has the leading PHP framework with over 120 active Open Source developers. (For those of you who thought PHP is just a scripting language; Think Again.) I had heard that they have our tools (JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo, Fisheye, Crucible and Crowd) but I didn't know well they were set up. The blog title refers to the Pirsig book that muses on quality and well reasoned maintenance.

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Atlassian Development Tools at 299,792,458 Meters per Second

Sid Probstein, the CTO of Attivio, recently posted a great blog about developing Software at the Speed of Light Sid leads a clever team that has shipped two big releases in one year without slipping schedule dates. While Sid lists many secrets to his team's success, one pillar of their productivity is their use of Atlassian tools: To support the automation goal above, we are very careful about selecting tools that support our goals. You will find the entire Atlassian Software stack - JIRA, Bamboo,

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