(Guest blog) Tackling the top 10 games development problems using Atlassian tools

Atlassian has been helping hundreds of game developers produce the top games of the day for years now. It seems like just yesterday when we had Steve Weibe, of 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' fame, at our GDC booth trying to best his Donkey Kong world record. Alas, that was years ago, and so many games have been developed since then utilizing our tools. This is a guest blog post by Gareth Wilson from Adaptavist who are an Atlassian Platinum Expert. Adaptavist provide services and

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Moving Confluence from Subversion to git

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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Lo-fi wallboard lets you view build status in the cloud

Here at Atlassian, we have wallboards everywhere. On my team, we have a wallboard that cycles through screens showing the build status, the number of open JIRA issues assigned to team members, how many pending code reviews we have, and relevant deadlines. We recently had a ShipIt Day. ShipIt Days are a chance for developers to work on a project of their choice. Generally these projects are software - new plugins, spikes or products. Anna and I are Confluence developers with a distinctly crafty

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(Press Release) Atlassian Announces All New OnDemand Service for Product Development and Collaboration

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Atlassian OnDemand is a new software as a service (SaaS) offer that allows software development and project teams to use Atlassian's award-winning products, including Atlassian JIRA and Confluence, for as low as $10/month for 10-users. The new multi-tenant, cloud-based service gives customers access to a set of enterprise-grade development and collaboration products at unprecedented prices that can be configured in minutes. In addition to Atlassian products,

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(Case Study) Social Commerce and our Hosted Development Tool Suite

Founded: 2010 HQ: Delaware (as any startup is) Employees: 10 Products: Hosted tool suite Our case studies are typically from well established companies. It's not often that we hear from a fresh new startup with no website or public products. But this in fact was the case when I was contacted by Ovidiu Pitic, Founder and Operations Manager, of Mayabo. Mayabo develops Whooparoo, a social commerce platform for online retailers, which has just launched (they were in private beta during

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5 Reasons to get JIRA 5 Beta

Atlassian is excited to announce the release of JIRA 5.0 beta available today! JIRA 5.0 aims to make it easier to consume and to develop plugins, and here are five reasons why all JIRA admins and developers should get the beta today! 1. Stable APIs! Making plugins easier to consume and develop means lowering the bar for plugin adoption - making it easier to find, promote, install, and upgrade plugins. Stable APIs make this easier, whether you're a commercial plugin developer and want more customers,

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