git bisect…

...or how I found out who broke JIRA's coverage build last night. JIRA's Clover Code Coverage build is scheduled to run once a day. Yesterday someone checked in something that broke 194 tests. The problem is there were 18 commits by 7 unique authors and none of the commits come with a helpful message like "Warning, this commit is the one that will break the coverage build!" To try to narrow down which of the commits was the problem, I decided to use an automated bisection of commits. git comes with

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Atlassian Summit!

Customers, friends, coders! You've read our blogs, built on our code, and now, we'd like to meet you. I wanted to let you know about Atlassian's worldwide user conference - Atlassian Summit. The Summit will be hosted in San Francisco from May 31st to June 2nd, and Atlassian would like to extend an invitation to all of you. As an Atlassian developer, I hope you can attend this landmark event: not just to learn how to improve the use of our products in an agile environment, or how to build a plugin,

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ShipIt X – Attack of the Gadgets

A short time ago, in a galaxy not too far away, a group of talented but brash Developers were defeated by an enemy alliance forged from planets Tech Writing and Marketing. This epic battle came to be known throughout the universe as "FedEx IX". Before filming the next installment, "The Developers Strike Back", we needed to shoot a prequel...

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Moving from Open Source To JIRA; Part 2: Customer Case Study

This is the second part of the two part series on making the switch from a Open Source issue tracker to JIRA, our commercial issue tracking tool. You can read part one (how to move) here. To find out what it's actually like to make the switch, I spoke with Preston Tollinger, who made the move about a year and a half ago. Preston is CTO of Cellfire, a US-based mobile software company that allows consumers to access coupons and deals from brand-name merchants nationwide, through their cell phone.

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