Monthly Archives: August 2009

Announcing Atlassian Codegeist 2009

I'm happy to announce that starting today Codegeist 2009 is officially underway! If you've never heard of Codegeist before it is Atlassian's annual development contest where developers like you can win huge prize packages for building plugins and integrations to Atlassian products. This year we will be awarding six prizes a Grand Prize winner and a Runner Up and four category winners from this list: 1. Best Cross-product Integration 2. Best Theme 3. Most elegant use of Javascript 4. OpenSocial Gadget Of

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Confluence for Business Intelligence Part 2 – Retrieving Data

As part of our continuing series on Confluence for Business Intelligence, today we're going to talk about the mechanics of getting data into a Confluence page. We need to know how to do  this before we can start producing the fancy charts and dynamic reports that you typically associate with a Business Intelligence solution.Static Tables The most basic way to present data in a Confluence page is with a static table. Static tables may lack the dynamic nature of retrieving 'realtime' information

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Atlassian at TED – Daniel Pink on 21st Century Motivation

Ted.com just posted the last month's TED talks and, to our surprise, Atlassian was hailed by Dan Pink (best-selling author and former Al Gore speechwriter) as a company that motivates its employees in radical and effective ways. Specifically he mentions our ShipIt Days, where we set aside 1 1/2 days for developers to work on whatever they want (with a skew towards our products) and then demonstrate it live to the entire company. He also mentions Atlassian's 20% time where Atlassian developers

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Agile 2009 Session – Code Review for Agile Teams

Are you attending Agile 2009 in Chicago this week? Interested in learning more about how code review can be effectively done in an agile teams context? Check out "Effective code reviews in agile teams" at 4:00 PM, Monday 8/24 in Grand Ballroom E. Wojciech Seliga and Slawomir Ginter, members of Atlassian's development team, will talk about how they've implemented a lightweight, peer code review system that doesn't take too much time and yields great results. Of course they are using Crucible and

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