Monthly Archives: April 2009

This Bamboo customer story is the fifth of an 8-part blog series about why so many developers adopt continuous integration written by our guest blogger, John Ferguson Smart. Last time we talked about driving quality with hyper complex distributed builds, and this week we cover Optimizing Continuous Integration to push build artifacts.

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JAOO 2009 – get your developer geek on

JAOO is rolling into Oz starting next week, so if you are a local Australian developer make sure you get your ticket and come and check out what's happening in the software development world. JAOO will be in Sydney for 5 - 8 May and in Brisbane 11 - 14 May. There will be talks and workshops covering Enterprise Java, Microsoft/.NET, Internet Applications, Ruby and Scrum & Agile. Our Fearless Leader Mike Cannon-Brookes will be presenting about "Atlassian: An Australian Success Story". Mike will

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Atlassian Newsletter Refresh

You may have noticed some discussion of the Atlassian Newsletter in our blogs. We ran a survey recently about making our newsletter more relevant. "What does relevant mean?" you may ask yourself. Let me explain... For three years now — back when Atlassian was selling only two products — we have been sending our newsletter with virtually the same design and format. Atlassian has changed a lot since the newsletter was first launched, and we thought it was way past time to update the newsletter. What

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We have just published our guidelines for designing REST APIs. Some of our applications already have REST APIs but so far they have been developed in an ad hoc way without too much attention to how other applications implement theirs. The goal of the guidelines is to get more consistent APIs across Atlassian applications so that as a user of those APIs you know what to expect and how to interact with them. We wanted to make this document public for two main reasons. The first one being that we value

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If you were under a rock or away from a computer, you may have missed the Atlassian Stimulus Package: our promotion of $5 licenses for JIRA and Confluence, with all proceeds donated to charity. We launched the Atlassian Stimulus last week expecting to sell around 5,000 licenses and generate $25,000 for Room to Read. Well, we were way off the mark. Here are some stats: We hit our goal of $25,000 in just 23 hours By the end of 5 days, 7,286 organizations purchased $5 licenses 13,126 licenses were

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