Monthly Archives: May 2006

Bug fixes galore

I've been a little bit quieter than usual lately, as I've been hard at work on the Atlassian Plugin system. I've spent the last couple of weeks fixing bugs and adding a new feature. The new feature will have to wait for a bit, but most of the bugfixes came out last week with Confluence 2.2.1a. But in case your don't obsessively read our release notes the instant they hit the wire, I thought I'd mention the fixes on here on the dev blog, as they are really only useful to Plugin Developers. Component

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Mind blowing support from Contegix

I was going to write a long post about how fantastic Contegix is for java hosting, but I think that this email exchange pretty much says it all: On Apr 22, 2006, at 12:09 AM, matthew.porter@contegix.com wrote: Charles: After multiple attempts to restart the javablogs.com system for the past 1 hour, 18 minutes, we are unable to keep the system alive. Within minutes of the site starting, it begins to throw OOMEs. I have attempted to contact someone via phone at all none numbers, including office

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Train Rides and Image Slideshows

Train rides are boring, especially when they take half an hour. What could be more fun then writing Confluence plugins to kill some time? A couple days ago I stumbled upon a neat little piece of javascript which based on prototype and scriptaculous makes slideshows look pretty money. Since our gallery macro slideshow is useful but far from perfect, I decided to write up a new plugin which utilizes that script. After two train rides and an hour at home the image slideshow plugin was ready to be unleashed. Some

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