DevTools Greatest Release Event Of All Time

The Friday before last, the Dev Tools teams (Crucible, FishEye, Clover and Bamboo) went out on a fantastic release excursion. We started out by trekking out to the Powerhouse museum for a backstage tour of the archive basement. We saw some pretty ancient artefacts (technologically speaking), including a NeXTcube, the very first tote board created by George Julius here in Sydney, and saw an exhibition on Charles Babbage. After a good number of hours at the Powerhouse museum, we wandered across

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We here in Internal Systems have started work on a fairly typical-for-us project: we're rewriting the application that sends data from our ordering system (HAMS) to our financial system (Netsuite). FISC, the new application, will provide a REST-based interface which HAMS will call upon invoice payment. It's not a technically difficult or even a large application, but because it deals with financial information it's very, very important to get right. Developing our New Application We didn't quite

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Atlassian Clover wins Duke’s Choice Award at JavaOne 2009

Last week at JavaOne 2009, Atlassian Clover received the Duke's Choice Award for Java Technology Tools. Clover was hand picked by the Father of Java himself, James Gosling, for it's revolutionary Test Optimization capabilities. The Duke award was presented to Brendan Humphreys, Chief Code Poet and Technical Lead of the Clover development team as part of James' Java Toys keynote at JavaOne 2009. Principle developers also include Slawek Ginter, Nick Pellow, and Michael Studman. Congratulations to the entire Clover team!!

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Atlassian Clover wins Duke's Choice Award at JavaOne 2009

Last week at JavaOne 2009, Atlassian Clover received the Duke's Choice Award for Java Technology Tools. Clover was hand picked by the Father of Java himself, James Gosling, for it's revolutionary Test Optimization capabilities. The Duke award was presented to Brendan Humphreys, Chief Code Poet and Technical Lead of the Clover development team as part of James' Java Toys keynote at JavaOne 2009. Principle developers also include Slawek Ginter, Nick Pellow, and Michael Studman. Congratulations to the entire Clover team!!

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Today Atlassian is proud to announce the acquisition of GreenHopper for JIRA from GreenPepper Software. With over 700 customers globally, GreenHopper for JIRA adds key agile project management capabilities to JIRA, including release planning, task management and burn down charts. agile@Atlassian Atlassian is already well known by agile software development teams for providing tools that complement agile practices, including Continuous Integration (Bamboo), Code Reviews (Crucible), and Code Coverage

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