Archives for Jens Schumacher

Building a Project with Multiple Repositories

Bamboo 3.3 was released several weeks ago with brand new features - support for multiple repositories for a single Plan. Despite it being one of the most popular feature requests ever, we got a few questions on how to really take advantage of multiple repository support. Let's take a look at three ways to utilize this feature if you need to build your project from source... 1. Easily build large projects Large projects are often composed of smaller, self-contained modules. Depending on your choice

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Bamboo Innovation Week – 3.3 Sneak Preview

For the Bamboo 3.3 release we've decided to have an innovation week instead of taking traditional 20% time. I will explain in a separate post what exactly that means and why we've done it, but today I want to talk about the results and give you a sneak preview of Bamboo 3.3. Let's get started... Fast, history-friendly tabbed navigation ------------------- Jason worked on making Bamboo even faster by loading tabbed content via AJAX (instead of full-page reloads), utilising HTML5's browser history

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Continuous Deployment at Atlassian

"Test early, test often". This old software development principle applies to many areas beyond just testing. Fact is, if you do something frequently, you will get better at it, even if you don't aim to become an "expert". Traditionally software has been developed in a waterfall model, where each phase of the process follows the next phase in a sequential manner. Towards the end of this process you will find some type of deployment or release, a really painful deployment or release. Why? Because

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Atlassian IDE Connector 3.0

We started the open source Atlassian IDE Connector project a few years ago with the goal of providing developers with a faster and more convenient way to interact with Atlassian applications. Thousands of downloads and a few years later, the Connectors provide access to many of the features available within the web applications, but the rest of the world did not stand still. The web and our products have evolved to the point that they eclipsed (no pun intended) the user-experience within the IDE

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Bamboo 3.0 Beta – we want your feedback

Bamboo 3.0 is nearly here... "download":http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/BambooEAPDownloads.jspa the public beta to take an early look at the upcoming features of Bamboo 3.0 and give us your feedback on the upcoming features and improvements. h2. What's in the Box? "Bamboo 2.7":http://www.atlassian.com/software/bamboo/whats-new.jsp introduced Stages, speeding up your feedback cycle by allowing you to run Jobs in parallel and structure your builds more efficiently -- this was only the first

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