Monthly Archives: May 2007

Codegeist Winners: Crowd

The Crowd team — Justen, Justin and Shihab — looked through the four Crowd entries and selected our first and second place winners. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Crowd JAAS Login Module by Brad Harvey. The Crowd team was very impressed by the quality of this submission. The archietcture was smart, and the coding was very well done. They writem, "This is a excellent example of how to write a quality plugin component. It gets a perfect score for the completeness of it's

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This is the first in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the Hosted wiki blogs. You've heard over and over again that wikis are the hot new thing in corporate applications, the collaboration tool of the future. You've done your homework, performed some research, asked some geeky but well-informed mates, and finally, grudgingly, agreed that, yes, Atlassian's Confluence is the only real answer for enterprise wiki

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Codegeist Winners: Confluence

This year there were fourteen new Confluence plugins entered in Codegeist. The quality was universally high and the competition was fierce. There were some truly impressive entries. First Place The winner of the First Place, and $4,000, is the CheckLists Plugin by Roberto Dominguez of Comala Technologies. It implements a set of macros to generate checklist tables for a subset of pages. For each page, labels can be set/un-set and notes can be added. It provides a handy way to construct to-do lists,

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Codegeist Winners: Bamboo

The product development teams each spent an afternoon last week reviewing in detail all of the Codegeist entries. And I'm going to announce all of the winners this week, starting with Bamboo today. We had seven excellent Bamboo plugins entered in Bamboo's first year in the contest. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Coverage Plugin, by Dan Grabowski. The Coverage plugin provides tracking of, and insight into, project code coverage for Bamboo builds. It supports code coverage data

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How to get a job at Atlassian

As a new 'face' on the Atlassian News Blog, I should probably introduce myself. I recently started working at Atlassian as a Business Analyst, charged with ensuring that our internal systems continue to provide legendary service to our customers. With all the interest that's out there about Atlassian and its famous culture, I thought I'd share a few hints about how I got the job... In fact, I'd say that there were two things that significantly helped me get the job: (1) Right Time, Right Place BarCamp

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