Archives for Sarah Goff-Dupont

DevOps & Distributed Teams

Soon after joining Atlassian about 18 months ago, it was clear that this is a DevOps-minded crew. Not that there's any coordinated effort around this. It's simply a group of people dedicated to continuously improving the ways we work in our respective expertise, and the ways we work together across teams. Last month, we launched the DevOps Dojo - a website sharing our thoughts on the cultural and technical aspects of adopting the DevOps way of developing software. We're far from having it all

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Technical Marketing is More Awesome Than You Think

"I was so excited, I nearly pee'd on the rug." That line always gets a laugh when people ask me how I came to work at Atlassian. (Yes, that's at–not for. You'll see what I mean.) The path that led me here has a few bends and a couple bonafide non-sequiturs: degrees in Global Political Economy and Political Science, then gigs as a dot-com receptionist, copywriter, substitute teacher, QA tester, automated test engineer, and scrum master before I applied to the Bitbucket Product Marketing position

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Start Your Engines – the Bamboo 5 Beta is Here!

W'hoo! Bamboo 5's first Early Access Program build is here! This is your chance to kick the tires, give us some early feedback and help shape the direction of the 5.x series. Not to mention earn some serious nerd-cred. What We Need From You Download your favorite distribution. Along the way you'll be asked for your email address. This tell us how many people are actually participating vs. how many indicated interest, which helps us plan for future beta programs, and ensures we have an open

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Coming soon: Bamboo 5 Early Access Program!

We grown-ups don't anticipate Christmas morning like we used to. (Or do we...?) But that doesn't mean we don't get excited about new toys! You may have heard about the deployment awesomeness we're baking into Bamboo 5 at one of our Atlassian RoadTrip stops, at an AUG, or by word of mouth*. If so, you're probably keen to kick the tires on this thing. Well friends, Christmas is coming early this year. In early May we'll kick off the Bamboo 5 Early Access Program (ie, a beta). Milestone builds will

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Bamboo Goes Mobile with a New App from Addteq!

That's right, kids! An app for iPhone and Android that lets you keep tabs on your Bamboo builds no matter where you are. Here to tell us about it is the project's development lead: Matthew Burnett from Addteq, an Atlassian Expert partner. Take it away, Matthew!... Are you constantly on the go and out of the office? Did you just get an automated email from your Bamboo server telling you that a build just failed? With Stix for Bamboo, you can check your server while you’re away from the office

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Continuous Integration of Android Apps with Bamboo

Today we are lucky enough to have a guest blogger! Himanshu Chhetri is a developer at Addteq and works with the Configuration Management and Atlassian Solutions delivery teams. In his free time he likes to keep up-to date with the latest open source projects and the devops movement. Most developers use Eclipse as their IDE of choice for Android development. Google provides the ADT (Android Developer Tools) plugin for Eclipse that simplifies the process of setting up new Android projects and going

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