Monthly Archives: October 2011

Tools and Toast at the Austin AUG

In September I headed out to Austin for the fourth meeting of the Austin Atlassian User Group. My mission was clear: answer questions, present hot topics and learn how our tools are being used. The air was hot, coffee was strong and folks were extra friendly. The Value of a Small Group The Austin group was just recently formed and has a small crowd, which allowed us to speak openly and intimately with each other. The size of the group enabled us to individually share experiences with Atlassian

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Atlassian OnDemand, Meet Get Satisfaction

Integrate your community directly into your product development process. By connecting Atlassian OnDemand with your Get Satisfaction community, your customers will have their feedback incorporated directly into the product development process with the click of a button. You can create issues in JIRA from problems reported in the community, add the most voted up ideas from the community as feature requests for your product team, and route technical questions from the community to developers that

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Create Custom Intranet Designs with RefinedWiki Original Theme 3.0

This is a guest post by Jimmy Lundström, CEO of RefinedWiki, one of Atlassian's official partners. This post highlights the new features shipped in the latest release of RefinedWiki Original Theme, a plugin which enhances the user interface and functionality of Confluence.   We're excited to announce that the Original Theme 3.0 release is compatible with Confluence 4.0 and includes three major new features. 1. Accelerate the way you organize Spaces Categories allow you to put your Confluence

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Melbourne Cup 2011 – Atlassian style

Australians enjoy gambling, and there's no bigger day on the Australian gambling calendar than the Melbourne Cup. This annual horserace literally "stops the nation" as every Australia citizen turns on the television to watch 3-minutes of thoroughbred action. Other traditions associated with the Melbourne Cup include partying, silly hats and office sweeps. People contribute a few dollars to a sweep and are assigned a random horse in the race. They can then cheer on their gee-gee with increased

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The road to HAMS 3.0 – Transactions, atomicity and credit-cards

HAMS is Atlassian's order processing system; if you've ever bought an Atlassian product it's HAMS that's been doing the work in the back-end. HAMS has served us well, but is over 3 years old now and starting to show some wear, so we set aside August this year to attack some of the technical debt and upgrade the core engine. In a series of blog posts we'll be describing some of the technologies and trade-offs in a financial-processing system. OK, so now we've fixed our declarative transactions

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Behind the Scenes of the Atlassian Logo Redesign

As I'm sure you've already seen, Atlassian has a new look! After the months of hard work leading up to this we're all really excited to have our new brand released into the wild. I thought it'd be fun to take a peek at the process behind the core of our rebrand: the new logos. It took a lot of exploration and refining over the course of several months, but gradually we honed in on the winner. Why Redesign? While the old logos had served us well, we thought it was a good time for them to be

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