Monthly Archives: August 2010

Technical Writing @ Atlassian: Join us for our second Atlassian Doc Sprint

Atlassian's technical writers are holding our second Doc Sprint on the 4th and 5th of November 2010. It's happening in Sydney, in San Francisco and online and you're invited! If you can't join us in person, you can drop in on our daily webinar sessions, follow the buzz in our online chat room and subscribe to our email list. What is a Doc Sprint? A Doc Sprint is a short (two-day) event when a group of people collaborate and focus on writing a specific set of documentation. What's our second Doc Sprint

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Webinar: Scarlet – Scalable, Redundant, Cloud Enabled JIRA

Next week, we will host a webinar on Scarlet by Sourcesense, an open source systems integrator. Scarlet is a special edition of JIRA created to meet the demanding needs of customers Sourcesense has met as an Atlassian partner, sometimes in need to handle millions of issues, often requiring failover, all of them wanting top performance at low costs. Scarlet provides an enhanced service while it's as easy to install as any other JIRA instance. They will briefly describe the new

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Under the hood of JIRA Drag and Drop Attachments plugin

In this article you'll learn how to create a setup-less plugin that injects itself into JIRA issue page. Also you'll see how to do a Drag and Drop with modern browsers in a couple of lines :-) Also in this course you'll also become familiar with writing JIRA plugins. So let's move on. Let me in, please! So, I'm scratching my head wondering how can I attach myself to the issue page. Let's use a custom field! Simple, elegant and easy to code solution. Isn't it? Sure it is but it has one drawback

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Drag and Drop Screenshots into Confluence with Skitch

Do you ever find yourself pasting screenshots into your Confluence pages? At Atlassian, we're often creating screenshots for describing bugs we want fixed and features we want implemented. So let me share with you a nifty little tip to make the process smooth and easy. Here's what you'll need Confluence 3.1 or later - Confluence 3.1 introduced the awesome attachment Drag and Drop feature which lets you drag images and Office documents directly into the rich text editor. (Note that drag and drop

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Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.2 Released

The Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.2 is now available for download. This release focuses on enhancing the Bamboo continuous integration capabilities from within Visual Studio. Bamboo integration features View Bamboo build history - view the last 10 builds of each plan that is being monitored and open up those plans all from inside Visual Studio.See JIRA issues related to Bamboo builds - navigate to JIRA issues related to a build directly from Visual Studio.Re-run failed tests - view test

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Video: Confluence for Knowledge Management, Great Wiki Adoption Tips

Charles River Analytics (www.cra.com) is a small research & development company delivering innovative solutions through intelligent systems. In the video below, Brad Rosenberg, Charles River Senior Scientist and wiki evangelist, shares 1) how his company uses Confluence for knowledge management and team project collaboration, and 2) how a small group fosters wiki adoption, engagement and support. Brad did a great job of showing how his company helps new employees get familiar

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