Monthly Archives: May 2007

Codegeist Winners: Crowd

The Crowd team — Justen, Justin and Shihab — looked through the four Crowd entries and selected our first and second place winners. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Crowd JAAS Login Module by Brad Harvey. The Crowd team was very impressed by the quality of this submission. The archietcture was smart, and the coding was very well done. They writem, "This is a excellent example of how to write a quality plugin component. It gets a perfect score for the completeness of it's

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Codegeist Winners: Confluence

This year there were fourteen new Confluence plugins entered in Codegeist. The quality was universally high and the competition was fierce. There were some truly impressive entries. First Place The winner of the First Place, and $4,000, is the CheckLists Plugin by Roberto Dominguez of Comala Technologies. It implements a set of macros to generate checklist tables for a subset of pages. For each page, labels can be set/un-set and notes can be added. It provides a handy way to construct to-do lists,

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Codegeist Winners: Bamboo

The product development teams each spent an afternoon last week reviewing in detail all of the Codegeist entries. And I'm going to announce all of the winners this week, starting with Bamboo today. We had seven excellent Bamboo plugins entered in Bamboo's first year in the contest. First Place First place and $4,000 goes to the Coverage Plugin, by Dan Grabowski. The Coverage plugin provides tracking of, and insight into, project code coverage for Bamboo builds. It supports code coverage data

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Bamboo has JIRA covered

We recently installed the latest Bamboo Code Coverage plugin on our internal Bamboo build box for JIRA. This plugin was contributed via our Codegeist competition. After using it for a little while I have to say it's an incredibly useful tool. The coverage tests run once a week. Currently this only accesses unit test coverage, but I'm looking at getting a Bamboo plan setup that records the combined coverage of unit and functional tests. The plugin provides a nice overview of everything that's changed

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What are you waiting for?

Tommi Laukkanen was one of our most prolific Codegeist entrants this year -- submitting four individual plugins, each of which was very cool. I was even more impressed after reading his blog entry about the process where he reveals that these were the first Atlassian plugins he had ever written! He writes about the experience: I hadn’t coded JIRA plugins before so I started from a simple Parent Issue Summary plugin that improves the usability of issue lists when organization is using issue

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Fedex V – Bamboo Firefox Plugin – Redux

So my last fedex day I started to stumble into the world of Firefox Plugin's, the result was a somewhat lame and only partially usable Bamboo plugin for Firefox. This time round I decided to have another crack at it, pick up from where I left off, and try to make this puppy shippable! So with my XUL utility belt and some JavaScript know how I got to work ... So my last fedex day I started to stumble into the world of Firefox Plugin's, the result was a somewhat lame and only partially usable Bamboo

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