Monthly Archives: June 2008

FedEx VIII – NNTP FTW!

Between the trials, tragedy and the triumph, the 8th instalment of Atlassian FedEx day came and went. 49 projects were submitted in the biggest and the best one yet! Projects spanned the entire gamut; from playing shiny new toys like Skitch, EC2, Groovy to parallelising Maven downloads and adding supportability to our products. FedEx days have been a regular Atlassian event since 2005 and it's still going strong. What the hell is it? If you want to find out more, read Mike's inaugural blog about

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New Release of EditGrid core service

Atlassian Partner EditGrid just put out an awesome new release of their core product, the EditGrid Online Spreadsheet. I'll start with a quick re-cap: EditGrid is a brower-based spreadsheet that allows to collaborate (in real time!) with your colleagues. The experience is amazing. I'm not an expert Excel jockey, but I find the EditGrid UI and editing experience superior to its offline counterpart. It offers a wiki-like experience, in that multiple people can collaborate and every change is versioned

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JIRA Issues Bucket

Did you ever need to keep an eye on a pulse of issue flow in JIRA? JIRA is all about issues; whatever they may be. Some JIRA users create issues. Others action issues: fix bugs, implement new features, follow up on tasks, etc. If you are one of those people who need to monitor what is happening in your JIRA instance, read on. I am a bug master for JRA project. My responsibilities include keeping an eye on bugs. I need to know about all new bugs raised - so I can take an action if needed; to comment

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Finally, the results of Codegeist III

I must apologize that these results have been so long in coming. The developers did their part and got me their votes on time. But I ended up at Enterprise 2.0 and our Boston Users' Group last week, which turned out to be pretty all absorbing, leaving no time for Codegeist. E2.0 was an entertaining conference; the collaboration/social-software market has made tremendous strides in the last year. And I really enjoyed meeting many Boston-area customers (and a few plugin developers) at the Users' Group. But,

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Global Search in JIRA Studio

JIRA Studio is our latest hosted offering, which combines JIRA, Confluence, Fisheye, Crucible and SVN via a number of plugins to provide a seamless development environment to the end user. Search is an area where the integration between products has been lacking so far. Each application provides powerful search mechanisms, however there was no global mechanism to search all applications. Implementing global search in Studio proved to be one of the more interesting features I've worked on so far.

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Story Cards

Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this "agile" stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them ... right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGBjmN4gjY

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