Archives for Jonathan Nolen

Atlassian Summit!

Customers, friends, coders! You've read our blogs, built on our code, and now, we'd like to meet you. I wanted to let you know about Atlassian's worldwide user conference - Atlassian Summit. The Summit will be hosted in San Francisco from May 31st to June 2nd, and Atlassian would like to extend an invitation to all of you. As an Atlassian developer, I hope you can attend this landmark event: not just to learn how to improve the use of our products in an agile environment, or how to build a plugin,

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Bamboo and Maven in Reverse

So, everyone knows how Bamboo works brilliantly with Maven -- it can build any Maven 1 or Maven 2 project out of the box, using just the metadata stored in the Maven's project files. We use this capability of Bamboo to continuously build all of our Maven-based projects. You can see plenty of examples here, on http://bamboo.developer.atlassian.com However, all of those builds depend on our Maven infrastructure, which has gotten pretty complicated over the years. We use Maven in all areas of our development

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Universal Wiki Converter v50 released!

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the newest version of the Universal Wiki Converter (full release notes). We're up to version 50, and this release boasts a nice new set of user and developer features as well as improvements to existing wiki converters. The Universal Wiki Converter (UWC) is a standalone application which converts pages from other wikis to Confluence. It's also an extensible framework, allowing users with wikis that aren't currently supported to add their own converters.

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JIRA in an Agile Team

Kieran Shaw, of BlackPepper, recently posted a great blog with recipe for setting JIRA up for an Agile team. However, we recently decided on Jira as our feature/bug tracking tool of choice and thought it would be interesting to see if we could use Jira to manage our agile projects rather than have more than one tool. One of the cornerstones of an agile project is tracking your velocity. This is essentially a measure of how much work you are doing over a period of time. Agile projects are run in

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Reminder: AtlasCamp is three weeks away

Just a quick post to remind everyone that AtlasCamp, our first-ever developer camp, is approaching and you need to book your reservation soon. We're down to the last few spots, so don't wait too long. Also, feel free to join the discussion on the AtlasCamp page about the topics that we'll cover. There have been some great ideas generated already. It's going to be an very interesting two days. See you there!

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Join us for AtlasCamp

Atlassian is hosting our first ever worldwide developer conference, AtlasCamp! AtlasCamp is a 2-1/2 day user conference exclusively for developers in the Atlassian community --our engineers, external plugin developers, and partners and customers interested in developing plugins for our products. AtlasCamp is an opportunity to come together in a casual environment for a little learning and a lot of fun. We've published a tentative schedule for the weekend. Some highlights will be sessions about Plugins

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