Archives for Jim Severino

Using an AppleTV as a Wallboard Monitor

At Atlassian we use wallboards as information radiators to broadcast data from our JIRA and GreenHopper systems out to the software development teams. This "always on" graphical display makes everyone in the team aware of project status by default because nobody has to go digging for information. We use wall-mounted 46-50" HD TV displays, and have used a variety of systems to drive them from old PCs to microATX systems. Recently we've started driving wallboards with AppleTVs, which is pretty cool,

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Wanted: Build Engineers

It probably doesn't surprise you to hear that building, testing and releasing software is pretty important for a software company. At Atlassian we do a lot of it - we've got scheduled builds, triggered builds, performance builds, tested-platform builds, and many many more. We manage it all with Bamboo and the rest of the Atlassian stack. The developers rely on our build system to give them fast, accurate feedback on their work. When they make a change they need to know - quickly - if that change

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The Dundee Arms is Open for Business

"The Dundee Arms is Sydney's fifth oldest pub. Built in the 1840s, it served the ships and warehouses clustered around Darling Harbour and the shopkeepers in the Corn Exchange next door. Rich in history, the Dundee Arms has been home to many interesting residents including T.J. 'Buttie' McMahon - grandfather of Australian Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, and award-winning artists Rod Shaw, Graeme Inson, and Ivy Shore. Today the walls are decorated with many paintings and drawings that played

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Confluence Activity Reporting with Earth Hour

A few weeks ago Matt Hodges asked me if I could use some of my Foundation Time to help out with Earth Hour / WWF's Confluence installation at wiki.earthhour.org. It seems that WWF had been tracking activity with the Usage Tracking Plugin, but they disabled it because of some performance issues. Now they were stuck trying to coordinate a large, globally distributed cadre of volunteers without any way to tell who was contributing to the wiki or what the most popular pages were. They needed a replacement,

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Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 7 – Security

This post is seventh (and final) in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. In this series we've explained how to connect Confluence to a database to produce useful and dynamic reports for your business. When you do this, you're giving your users new capabilities and access to data that they might not have had before. Before you start, you need to be aware of the security implications, consider their impact on your organization, and take steps to address the risks you discover. There

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Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 6 – Scripting

This post is sixth in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. In our previous post we covered how you can pass parameters into your dynamic pages using the {run} macro, which is pretty cool. In this post we'll take "dynamic" to the next level with Confluence's scripting capabilities. The scripting plugin opens up a whole new set of possibilities. Instead of writing a page in wikimarkup, you write a script that writes a page in wikimarkup. This makes your reports more compact

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