Monthly Archives: April 2008

Upcoming User Groups in SF, Boston and DC

We'd like to invite everyone in the San Francisco, Boston, and Washington, DC areas to join us at the upcoming Atlassian User Group meetings. We've got a lot of great stuff planned: Presentations by Atlassian and members of the community A preview of the upcoming JIRA 4.0 in SF A tour of the new JIRA Studio hosted development suite in SF and DC Birds of a Feather sessions Time to socialize afterwards with free food and drinks! Plenty of Atlassian developers will be on hand to answer questions

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My people are spending time on f**cking what?!

I must admit that while Charles was very excited to hear the announcement of the 20% time trial at Atlassian, I received it with mixed feelings. The first thought that popped into my head was that we are giving people one day a week to slack off. Hence, the features that we think will benefit customers the most will be delayed. How can we encourage developers to spend time away from the chosen roadmap? Aren't people just going to spend their time learning the latest scripting language of the day

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Codegeist III: even more prizes!

Codegeist III just got better: we've added three new software license prizes to the contest. Many of the plugins for Atlassian products are free and open source, but some of them cost actual money. And since we're giving away licenses of JIRA and Confluence, I thought we might want to offer some of these plugins as well. I contacted the authors of three of our most popular commercial plugins and they agreed to give away free licenses to each Codegeist winner. EditGrid for Confluence EditGrid is,

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Beware of Hash Cookies

During my latest stint as the JIRA Developer on Support, I came across an issue where a customer reported that the Remember Me functionality of JIRA wasn't working - but only for some users. In his instance, he had two users: wmlalai and lagonil - for now, let's call them B1 and B2. For B1, the Remember Me functionality worked as expected; for B2, not so. Curious to the cause of this problem, I loaded up the customer's data in a local instance, and sure enough I was able to reproduce it. Monitoring

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