Monthly Archives: March 2008

Hammering Crowd

There have been a few customers wondering how Crowd scales (outside of it's integration with JIRA/Confluence). Unfortunately, the answers we could think of ranged from "..yes" to "nfi" - so we decided to take a look at load testing Crowd. Since Crowd offers a bunch of connection points for various applications, directories and databases, it's hard to give an accurate single metric for scalability. One particular evaluator was asking how Crowd would scale for 1 million users using an internal directory

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Codegeist III: And they're off!

The first Codegeist entries are starting to appear on the Entries page in the Codegeist space on http://confluence.atlassian.com! And even though there are still six weeks left in the contest, I think this is about the smartest thing that these developers can do. I blogged about this very thing last year, and the advice still stands: The plugins that were submitted early had the benefit of a month of real-world use, feedback, and bug reports. In general, those plugins ended up being substantially

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When IE says DOM is ready but it ain't true

This problem was a rather strange one (JRA-14423). I like tooling with JavaScript but sometimes it surprises me how many differences there may be between various browsers. Using JavaScript libraries has its benefits. A library may give us another abstraction layer - a layer that if designed well can hide differences between browsers and provide a uniform interface. Another reason to use a library is that if a library is popular and widely used, it is very likely well tested on probably more browsers

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Atlassian Supported Plugins, Round 2

I blogged a few months ago about a major change in our plugin libraries. Starting in November, we began designating certain plugins as Atlassian Supported. As I said at the time: Atlassian Supported means that we've reviewed the plugins and made sure that they have met certain criteria. A supported plugin must: be available in Developer Network SVN. have its dependencies must be in the Developer Maven Repository. have a JIRA project. have a Bamboo Project. be in the plugin repository (For Confluence). have

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