Archives for Justen Stepka

Mercurial fellowship donation

We see DVCS as a transformative shift in the way software is developed. Needless to say, Bitbucket has a lot invested in DVCS. This is why we are excited to announce that Atlassian has donated $24,000 USD to sponsor Mercurial development for 2012. Our contribution goes to the Mercurial Fellowship Project, which is managed by the Software Freedom Conservancy. Contributions allow Matt Mackall, the primary Mercurial author and project leader, to work full-time on new feature development with

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Powerful new pull request on Bitbucket

Atlassian's free DVCS code hosting site Bitbucket has release brand spanking new pull requests! Pull requests make it dead simple for contributors to: fork a favorite repo make a change request a merge from their fork As a repo owner, pull requests let you: Promote new code contributions Do simple code reviews Trigger single-click merge between forks on the server. Create a new pull request Anyone with a fork can create a pull request. Select the "create pull request" button

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Volunteering at the San Francisco Food Bank

A few weeks ago 15 Atlassians spent a half day volunteering at the San Francisco Food Bank to help with the holiday season. It was a great success with over 17,000 pounds of food boxed up for needy San Franciscan seniors, all in less than 4 hours. The food bank has 90 employees with a 5.9 million dollar annual budget, where they process over 32 million pounds in donated and purchased food. The food is then delivered to over 600 community food programs. This includes 191 neighborhood pantries, soup

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OpenID – is it even useful?

There has been lots of speculation regrading whether OpenID is actually useful and I've often asked myself what can OpenID actually do for a company. If you're interested in what OpenID can do for SSO/trust/webapps, then have a read. If you have no idea what OpenID is and want a quick overview, head over to the Crowd 1.1 Release Notes. Massive SSO The standard SSO techniques in Crowd are based on cookies. If you're authenticated, then a cookie token is set on your browser. The browser then sends

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OpenID 2.0 Logo Concepts

The OpenID project has proposed a new marketing image with the launch of the 2.0 version of the protocol, quoting the email thread: The existing OpenID logo has been a good fit over the last year or so. Its easily identifiable and pretty much ubiquitous now... Our goal will be to select one of the three logos shown below and announce it as part of our efforts to further introduce and explain our OpenID plans next week. Here are the previous suggestions: http://openid.net/pipermail/general/attachments/20061129/135950f8/attachment-0003.obj http://openid.net/pipermail/general/attachments/20061129/135950f8/attachment-0004.obj http://openid.net/pipermail/general/attachments/20061129/135950f8/attachment-0005.obj The

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OMG, OpenID — how do I do it?

Everyone seems to be going nuts for OpenID. The concept is still new, yet new sites pop up every day supporting the technology. There is plenty of chatter on various blogs and mailing list about integrating with OpenID, yet there are not really a lot of examples on how to do things as a best practice. When we decided to turn Crowd into an OpenID server application (end of May release), one of the first things we realized was that we needed a relying-party application to test our server with. When

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