Monthly Archives: May 2008

Codegiest III is complete!

I'm a little behind mentioning this, but Codegeist III is officially over! There was a burst of activity this year, bringing in fifty-three entries from forty-three different authors. There are some very ambitious entries as well, and some that I hope we will all continue to build on in the months to come. We received entries in every category, despite the fact that the plugin framework was brand new in a few of our products. I know that figuring out the new plugin systems without all the documentation

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The Simpleton Pattern

If you do your own research you may be led to believe that Simpleton is an anti-pattern. It has also been noted that Simpleton is best suited to the BBM architectural style. Some engineers at Atlassian maintain that the Simpleton characterises properties of developers themselves rather than of the software.

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Catapult

Lately I've been catching the train home a lot, and I was getting sick of walking to the station because I think it's too far away. I've learnt of a shortcut which I've found to be much faster (about 5 minutes) as it cuts out on traffic lights and the distance you have to travel. Original Route Shortcut Route The shortcut goes past the Shelbourne Hotel, across Kent St (which has a lot of breaks in traffic), and through an underground arcade directly to the middle of the station. A Shorter Shortcut I

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Confluence has a Selenium Build!

Last week, Matt Ryall and I have been trying to get a Selenium build up to test Confluence's Javascript features, especially the new drop down menus and page ordering tree. It wasn't easy, but I personally think it is definitely worth having these tests. Below is a summary of the steps and problems we encountered in setting up the build. 1. Writing a Selenium Test A few weeks back, I did a Selenium spike to see how easy it was to write a test that logged into Confluence and opened a add drop down

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Codegeist III closes Friday!

UPDATE: corrected the closing time. It's 1pm PST, not 11am PST. Just a quick note to remind everyone that Codegeist III closes this Friday, May 9th at 1pm PST. We've had a tremendous response so far: forty-one plugins! Go check out all the terrific entries. And if you're a user -- there's no reason that you can't start using these plugins yourselves right now! Developers, there are still a few days to get your entries posted and get feedback on your plugin. As many of the people who posted early

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