Monthly Archives: August 2007

An x-ray of Confluence

In many ways, Confluence has grown organically, and its dependency tree is no exception. Confluence has well over 100 open source dependencies which we ship with, and a dozen or so more used purely for testing. The other day I was investigating some duplication in our Maven dependencies, and Sam recommended the JFrog dependency analyser. Here's the interesting output from analysing the dependencies of confluence-webapp on trunk: Dependency analysis of Confluence. Click for full image. I'd

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Cutlassian 2007

This is going to be a long post but I promise it'll be worth your while. Grab a cup of joe, sit back, relax and read on matey! h1. The Background Historically at Atlassian, there are 3 big staff events at Atlassian during the year - Christmas, Melbourne Cup (or Superbowl if you're on the other side of the Pacific) and the End of Financial Year bash. Last year for the EFY the Sydney office went on "Mission: Atlassian" - our spy themed adventure race around Sydney. It was a massive success, beyond

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Text trimming with CSS Overflow property…

Currently (Pre JIRA 3.11), linked issues on the view issue page of JIRA have their summary trimmed down to 40 characters with trailing ellipsis on the server side and looks something like this: Notice the wasted white space? The white space also grows as the browser resolution is enlarged as the summary is always showing the first 40 characters only! First Attempt So as part of a fix for JRA-13102 to maximise the use of the wasted white-space, I started off with copying the behaviour of JIRA's minimised

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Wiki Adoption Part 4: Email Overload Killed the Businessperson

This is the fourth in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3. One of the things I consistently hear when I visit customers: reducing email is a key business case for the wiki. Email is one of the biggest time consumers in a typical workday, and usually extends far beyond the normal reaches of the workday, which is why you see so many people walking into traffic while looking down at their Blackberrys. I'm starting to

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Atlassian is looking for talent

As some of you may know, we have been trying to fill a number of open positions available throughout the company. In our latest assault, we are going to publicise our vacancies as heavily as possible throughout our website — but targeted at the right audience. As the majority of our open positions are based in Australia, we are initially targeting Australian visitors to see what impact the banner makes. Hopefully our Aussie customers who are enjoying using our software would also love to work

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Office 2.0

We’re sponsoring the upcoming Office 2.0 event in San Francisco. There will be a few Atlassians at the conference listening to speakers, roaming the exhibit area, and, hopefully, participating on one of the panels. Let us know if you’d like to pre-arrange a meeting.

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