Archives for Nick Menere

Designing JIRA – Paper Prototyping

Well it was bound to happen! The Colouring-In Team have regressed to our childhoods, picked up our crayons and got creative!Our previous work, pretty pages such as new View Issue, Issue Nav and dialogs, have all had quite small scope - though they weren't small pieces of work. The next section we plan on attacking is codenamed "Project Ignite" and is all about project configuration. There are 2 main targets for this release: New Users (primary) - Allowing them to comprehend the power of JIRA quicker

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Selenium – Is it worth the pain?

Thought I might share with you a few of my experiences with using Selenium. It is a little overdue as I have only recently been able to bring myself to talk about it. With JIRA 3.10, we introduced the AJAX-based 'User-picker' and 'Issue-picker'. A very handy feature, if I don't say so myself. Having recently completed some AJAX eye candy for ShipIt V, I found myself tasked to do this, along with one of our new recruits - Brad (a Javascript guru*). Our architecture is based on dwr for the

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Atlassian Sonar (ShipIt)

Sorry, it isn't a new product but rather a new way to navigate around our products and do things. Or more accurately, it will be if the right people are impressed by my ShipIt Day toy. It is a cross between Quicksilver and a command line with AutoComplete with a lot of AJAXy sugar. While I implemented this in JIRA, it could be pulled out and inserted into all the other products quite easily. If we had plugable plugins, it could be a fully contained plugin, with each product supplying it's own

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