Monthly Archives: March 2006

Codegeist judging update

My apologies to everyone: I had really hoped to have the contest judging completed by the end of this week, but that’s not going to happen. However, things are on track for next week, so look for an announcement late next week or early the following.
Thanks, all, for your patience. And stay tuned.

Factories of Mass Production

While working on the new feature of the ability to add custom events to JIRA (available in the upcoming JIRA 3.6 release), I thought it would be of interest to discuss a point on adding new objects to the JIRA source through PicoContainer. In Summary A new object was introduced to the JIRA source that depended on a number of objects registered through PicoContainer and also one that was not registered. In order to adhere to the Dependency Injection concept, a factory object was introduced to provide

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Atlassian Developer Chat

Thanks to everyone who showed up for the Developer Chat on Tuesday. We had a great turn out: lots of users and plenty of Atlassians to answer questions. The discussion didn't revolve around Codegeist specifically, but there were still lots of interesting nuggets. I've posted the transcript for you to read if you weren't able to make it to the chat. It was such a success that I think we will be making a regular occurrence of these. Look for the next one in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, the chat

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We're heading for the Codegeist finish line: only nine days left to submit your entries. And since it's coming down to the wire, we wanted to give all of you frantically-coding plugin developers one more chance to get help on your Codegeist entries before the end of the contest. So we're going to do a short Developer Chat next week. It will be held at: 5pm, Tuesday March 14th, San Francisco Time, which is 1am, Wednesday, March 15th GMT, which is 12pm, Wednesday March 15th, Sydney Time Find your

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