(Guest Blog) Announcing the Bamboo-LiveRebel Plugin!

Bamboo just added another great plugin to the family: Bamboo-LiveRebel!  Oliver White from ZeroTurnaround, makers of LiveRebel, is so excited about this plugin that he wrote up a little sumthin'-sumthin' to introduce you to it.  Take it away, Oliver! ZeroTurnaround is pleased to announce a plugin that is going to change your Continuous Delivery game: the Bamboo-LiveRebel plugin, available at no charge on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. More Bacon for Your Automation According to a recent

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Database Continuous Integration 101

We talk a lot about continuous integration here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog, and many readers are bonafide CI gurus.  Now that you are integrating your application code, test code, config files and deploy scripts, are you ready to take it to the next level?   An increasing number of engineering shops are starting to bring the continuous integration discipline into their database development.   If your first thought is "Say what?!", then read on.  David Atkinson, product manager at Red

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NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab Launches Atlassian Into Space

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) uses a host of Atlassian products to build the software used for flight mission planning as well as modeling data sent back from satellites and Mars rovers. I sat down with David Mittman, lead software developer and "default Atlassian guy" at JPL to get a closer look at what they're up to. JPL was founded in the 1930s as a place to test new rocket technologies, and—after the creation of NASA in 1958—was chartered with developing the robotic spacecraft

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GreenHopper Release – Scope Change and User Story Swimlanes

Before we get into the brilliant improvements to the Rapid Board for Scrum teams, check out this new video: http://youtu.be/v41Z7eOxMZ0 GreenHopper, Bamboo and JIRA work together wonderfully to support Agile teams: Teams can see the full build history for any user story, There is automated testing of all new story branches as they are created, Teams have the ability to push user stories to production continuously or manually (see Continuous Deploy One Byte at a Time), plus much

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I See You’re Not Automating Your Deploys… Would You Like To?

More and more teams are advancing from continuous integration into some flavor of continuous delivery, and the rise of provisioning and deploy tools makes it easier than ever to get started.  While every team's delivery pipeline will look a little different, there are some things that apply across the board.  I sat down with Andrew Phillips of XebiaLabs, maker of Deployit and the Deployit plugin for Bamboo, to talk about these universal truths.   As VP of Product Management, Andrew spends a lot

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My Hip New Workflow with HipChat

I'm not a huge fan of most notifications, especially the ones that vie for my constant attention -- like badge notifications on my iPhone. However, there is a time and place for focused and timely notifications that have increased my productivity. Many people who've never used HipChat before are quick to dismiss it as a simple group chat application. However, once you use it, it becomes apparent that it's a lot more than a group chat app. One of my favorite features of HipChat is the ability to

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