Monthly Archives: June 2011

(Case Study) OpenDNS on Atlassian Software Development Tools

Founded: 2005 HQ: San Francisco, CA Employees: 40 Products: JIRA, GreenHopper, Confluence, FishEye, Crucible The Domain Name System (DNS) is the "phone book" for the internet which translates human-friendly hostnames, like www.atlassian.com, into meaningful IP addresses which the web uses. Can you imagine having to remember something like 208.67.220.220 just to get to a single web address? OpenDNS is all about Internet security. They are the largest DNS service in the

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Let the Developer Party Begin: AtlasCamp 2011 Save the Date

Well everyone, it's that time of year again when us devs head down to beautiful Half Moon Bay, California for 2.5 days of developer goodness. We're excited to ask you to save the date for AtlasCamp 2011, our worldwide developer conference, on September 28-30, 2011. Anyone who has ever been to AtlasCamp will tell you that it's unlike any other conference. In the coming months we'll announce the agenda, registration, and everything else you'll need to know to be a part of AtlasCamp, the developer

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JIRA 4.4 Sneak Peek – the new Upgrader

My previous post provided a sneak peak of a new installer for Linux. This post will cover the new upgrade capability for the installer. In the past, upgrading JIRA took a bit of time, including a number of manual steps when config files were customised. For JIRA 4.4, we've designed a new upgrade wizard from the ground up that takes care of it all! Building on the same Install4J installer technology mentioned previously, we have overhauled the upgrade process to automate practically all the manual

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10 reasons Why You Should Try Team Calendars

Released on June 6th, 2011, Team Calendars was built from the ground up for collaborative teams that use Confluence - connecting your people, projects, and content. In this post I'll highlight 10 features that make Team Calendars a great solution for scheduling your team's leave, tracking your projects, and planning your events.

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Agile Best Practices Panel Discussion – Atlassian Summit 2011

Atlassian Summit 2011 was action packed with news and announcements. In case you missed any part of it, we've made nearly every Summit 2011 session available for you watch online. Agile Best Practices We know that no two teams are exactly alike, so we've assembled a panel of great dev team leads to answer questions about all things agile. Hear thoughts about things like: knowledge transfer between sub-teams backlog management handling communication and stand-ups among hundreds of developers documentation automated

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A Simple JIRA Plugin Using UAL

I'm going to show you how to create a simple Atlassian Plugin, using the Application Links API. The plugin will be a JIRA Custom Field. Prerequisites Get the Atlassian Plugin SDK. Create a skeleton JIRA plugin. I called mine jira-external-issue-plugin. Set up your IDE. Create the custom field See here for specifics. Your atlassian-plugin.xml should end up looking something like this: [cc lang="xml"] xmlns="http://www.atlassian.com/schema/plugins" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.atlassian.com/schema/plugins http://schema.atlassian.com/jira/jira-4.3.xsd"> ${project.description} ${project.version} A

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