Monthly Archives: February 2012

REST easy with JIRA 5

Now that JIRA 5 is out, let's talk about one of my favorite features of this new release, JIRA's new REST API. JIRA has supported remote APIs for many years with SOAP, XML-RPC, and JSON-RPC. However, telling developers that you support SOAP (and only SOAP) is like saying that you like writing applications with COBOL -- it's out of style. Today's cool kids gravitate towards REST. It's clean, simple, and highly portable across languages and frameworks. JIRA introduced its REST API in JIRA 4, but was

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From ShipIt to Final Cut – Building JIRA’s Minecraft Integration

It all started as a bit of a "joke" ShipIt project. A few of us play Minecraft together on a multi-player server and, after some customary ShipIt pizza and beer, decided that a Minecraft mod for creating and resolving JIRA issues would be a shoe-in for a crowd-pleasing ShipIt winner. Given that, if taken in proportion, the size of a Minecraft world is roughly equivalent to eight times the surface of the Earth, we all agreed it's pretty easy to lose track of all the great ideas you get while playing.

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JIRA DVCS Connector – connect issues to Bitbucket or GitHub

Hosting your Git or Mercurial source on Bitbucket or GitHub? If so, we recently announced a new and improved way of connecting your distributed version control hosting tool to JIRA - the JIRA DVCS Connector. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWQPDPXiFs0 Connect JIRA to Bitbucket or GitHub Many Bitbucket and GitHub users are connecting their source to JIRA issues via the JIRA Bitbucket Connector and JIRA GitHub Connector.  The JIRA DVCS Connector combines all the features of the JIRA Bitbucket

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Product Training at Atlassian Summit – Something for Everyone!

Every year at Atlassian Summit (our annual user conference) we provide training classes to help customers of all levels get the most out of their Atlassian tools.  These training classes are a great way for your entire team to get up to speed on new products, hone and learn new skills and hear the latest tips and tricks and use-cases.  Courses sold out early last year, so sign up now to secure a spot for your top choices. We listened to your feedback and have a whole new line-up of stellar courses

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Link JIRA Issues to Confluence Pages, Automatically

With all the excitement and buzz surrounding the JIRA 5.0 release last week, you might have missed a killer new feature that brings Confluence and JIRA closer together than ever before – Remote Issue Links. Finally, complete traceability between JIRA and Confluence Issue links give you complete traceability between the wiki pages you create in Confluence and the related issues you track in JIRA. There are two easy ways to create issue links between Confluence and JIRA instances that

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Boost Your Build Automation with Artifact Sharing in Bamboo

If you've been following the recent posts about using Bamboo to set up a continuous delivery pipeline, you have probably noticed us talking about build artifacts.  These are the products of the build itself: JARs, WARs, code coverage reports, test results, javadocs, rdocs... the list goes on n' on.   In this post, we'll walk through some tips and tricks to keep in mind when adding artifact sharing to your Plans. The Art of the Artifact Sharing build artifacts within your Plan is a great way to

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