Monthly Archives: March 2008

Announcing Codegeist III: Be The Code You Seek

Coders, start your development engines! It's time for Codegeist III, the 2008 edition of the Atlassian plugin competition. Once again, the contest is bigger and badder than last year: we're offering $30,000 in cash prizes, gobs of software from some of our favourite Java tool-smiths, and tickets to a few of the best developer conferences in the business. The theme this year, taken from our brand new company values, is "Be the code you seek". Sure, we lifted the idea from Gandhi, but we are not the

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Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment

I'm happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public "20% time" trial at Atlassian. If you've ever wondered how Google's famed 20% time works in reality, we'll be your guinea pigs and blogging the results for everyone to see. Why do 20% time? Atlassian has a proud tradition of innovation. We've always strived have market leading products, our internal Fedex days keep improving, we've won awards for entrepreneurial innovation and we try to never stop pushing the boundaries in our business. So

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Maven in our development process. Part 4. Remaining issues

So far we have covered all the work we have done setting up Maven: The requirements for our Maven process. The infrastructure we have set up. The project configuration details. As I went along, I also described some of the reasons for each part and some benefits. However, all of the work above does not guarantee that our process works smoothly every time. We do hit problems every now and again. Here, Samuel Le Berrigaud, James Dumay and I share some of the most frequent and some of the most sore

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Three's a Crowd – securing a Grails application with Acegi and Crowd

One of the cool things about working for Internal Systems is the opportunity to work on new systems. My most recent project is the development of my Fedex VII project into a fully-fledged application. Where my Fedex VII project was a standard Java web application, I'm doing the real version using Grails with Acegi. However, I have to use our existing Crowd instance, to leverage its user base and its single sign-on capabilities. While there's some good documentation out there about the individual

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Four new capabilities for the Atlassian Plugin Repository

We've recently added four new features to the Atlassian Plugin Repository that plugin developers should want to know about: Download Tracking For the last few months, we've been tracking the number of individual plugin downloads through the Plugin Repository. You can now display a table or graph of a plugin's downloads like this: You can limit by date, product, plugin, version, and specify how the hits are grouped: by day, week, month, year, or total. You can see all of the parameters in the documentation. We

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