Monthly Archives: November 2007

Atlassian Agile Process part 4

In this final part of my series on Atlassian Agile Process I wrap up and reveal XP's fundamental weakness. Oh and I cover socoipaths! And Ninjas. But no pirates. See also Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. Some Other XP Practices Let me get the rest of XP out of the way. Sustainable Work Hours, Collective Code Ownership and Metaphor are XP practices we don't give much thought to. The first two we embrace completely and the third we pretty much ignore. Then again, Bamboo has a metaphor: Telemetry. Perhaps

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The Page Preview Bug

Agnes called me over because she'd spent the last two hours banging her head against CONF-10035. Apparently, when editing a particular page on extranet, going to preview mode caused all the images and links on the page to be broken links. When the page was saved, though, everything worked fine.

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Using JIRA in Eclipse with Mylyn

Mylyn is a wonderful Eclipse plugin focused on helping you work more effectively by connecting the IDE to the issue tracker. As their web-site says, Mylyn "reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy... by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA." Mylyn brings JIRA right inside your IDE. You can view your whole list of assigned issues in JIRA. If you tell Mylyn which issue your working on,

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