Introduction of Astah UML Macro Plugin for Confluence

This is a guet blog post by Kenji Hiranabe, CEO at Change Vision, Inc. Hello from Japan! We are proud to announce that we have just released "Astah UML Macro Plugin for Confluence". This is our first plugin release from Change Vision that integrates Astah with Atlassian products. Have you ever heard of the name "Astah"? If you are using Confluence and UML diagrams in your project, this plugin is for you! Astah is a full-featured UML2.x standalone editor used worldwide by 400,000 users.

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Lightning Fast Issue Sharing and Reporting in Confluence 4.1

At Atlassian, we're creating new innovative ways to make our bug and issue tracker and content collaboration wiki as classic of a combo as spaghetti and meatballs. With the latest release of Confluence, a new feature helps bolster that notion. Autoconvert takes the links you paste into the editor – Confluence pages, JIRA issues, YouTube videos, Skitch images, Flickr photo streams, Vimeo videos, and Google maps – and transforms them into the rich content you linked to. It's the fastest way

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The Fastest Way to Create Rich Content Online

Raise your hand if you like magic? I don't mean pulling rabbits out of hats or illusions that make coins disappear from behind ears. I'm talking about the the real stuff. How cool would it be to have the power of your imagination's greatest sorcerer? The latest release of Confluence 4.1 brings that dream just a little bit closer with Autoconvert, transforming the links you paste into the editor, such as, Confluence pages, JIRA issues, YouTube videos, Skitch images, Flickr photo streams,

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One for the Wiki Markup Pros – Macro and Link Autoformatting

The Confluence team strives to deliver you the fastest online editing experience. In Confluence 4.0 we gave you Autoformatting - converting simple wiki markup on the fly. Formatted texts, lists, tables - it all works. Available in OnDemand and for download today, the  latest version of Confluence extends Autoformatting to support: macros links, and images Now you can insert all your favorite macros, including parameters, and create links - like anchors - using wiki markup. As soon as

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Team Calendars 1.8 Released – Make Team Calendars Personal

Did you actually think we were going to slow down just because it's a new year? After an exciting first 6 months in 2011, the Team Calendars development team continues it's blazing pace in 2012. We’re happy to announce that our next major release - Team Calendars 1.8 - is available for download now! Connect Team Calendars with Google Calendar At this point in human existence, managing your schedule is nearly impossible. Once upon a time, one's agenda only consisted of finding shelter,

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Three months ago, the Confluence team switched from Subversion to git, just in time for our 4.1 release. In Confluence, git, rename, merge oh my… we talked about the problems we encountered with merges across branches that had lots of renames. In this post, we take a step back to look at the tools we used in order to migrate the Confluence source code from Subversion to git. Preparation Firstly, we wanted to ensure that the following infrastructure supported our source code hosted in git: Since

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