Bamboo 2.6 released – 100 remote agents, improved dashboard

Bamboo 2.6 - Growing the Bamboo Forest The Atlassian Bamboo team is excited to announce the release of Bamboo 2.6. The focus of this release is scaling your Continuous Integration (CI) effort - more plans, more builds. 100 remote agents We have improved Bamboo's scalability so you can now build more plans simultaneously on up to 100 remote agents. Previously Bamboo only supported up to 25 remote agents. With this dramatic increase in remote agents we also made some changes to the user interface to

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Atlassian Webinar Roundup

When I joined the marketing team at Atlassian, my first task was to create and run a successful Voice of the Customer and Plugin of the Month webinar series. Here we are, 17 months and over 32 webinars later, and I think we've done a pretty good job. Time flies when you are having fun! These webinar series were created to empower prospective customers with adequate information on our products and their integrations, as well as enriching current customers with the knowledge to extend our products

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A new year’s blog roundup

In 2009, we hit a new high of 3,000 blog subscribers. And that was just for our News blog. The other blogs also saw record numbers of subscribers. There's no sign of a slow down. We wrote 10 blog posts since the last roundup, here are a few highlights: Video: Zend Framework and Atlassian tools. Zend Framework is arguably the most popular PHP framework available, boasting millions of downloads and an active community. Watch this video to learn how Zend is using Atlassian's product suite. Watch now. The

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We've just published the big list of Atlassian gadgets. It shows all our gadgets, where they come from and where you can put them. Want to display your Bamboo plan summary on your JIRA dashboard? Or your FishEye charts on a Confluence page? The big list tells you how. There are gadgets that show information from Confluence, JIRA, GreenHopper, Bamboo, FishEye, Crucible and Clover. I've just counted – there are 35 gadgets on the list! Are you wondering what the picture on the left has to do with

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Put Sonar Gadgets on your JIRA Dashboard!

The winners of the Atlassian Codegeist IV plugin competition were announced last Friday at the close of AtlasCamp, the annual conference dedicated to Atlassian plugin development. A total of six winners were selected, including the Sonar gadget by Ross Rowe which took the prize for Best OpenSocial Gadget. Sonar is a popular open-source code quality management platform from Codehaus that allows dev teams to collect, analyse and report metrics on their code. Sonar aggregates metrics from multiple

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Colour your Console (now in Java)

Most of us have seen how Rails uses colour in its server log, to highlight important lines or even words as the log scrolls by. In case you haven't, below is a screenshot: Java Devs, its now time for you too to keep your consoles pretty. Here is a very simple Color.java class that will wrap any text with the appropriate ANSI color codes. From the javadoc: This class uses the Builder Pattern, to allow combining formats. e.g. for a blue background and a bold, white foreground you would use: new Color("some

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