Monthly Archives: October 2008

New(ly Documented) Plugin Point – Attachment Links

You can now add links next to attachments in the Confluence UI via Confluence plugins. That means you can, for example, add a link to an action in your plugin that allows viewing of attachments online: Actually, this has been possible since Confluence 2.8. The links will show up on content's attachments view in Confluence 2.8+. In Confluence 2.10+, the links will also show up on the list of attachments shown by the attachments macro. Why didn't you hear about this before? We just started using this

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JIRA in an Agile Team

Kieran Shaw, of BlackPepper, recently posted a great blog with recipe for setting JIRA up for an Agile team. However, we recently decided on Jira as our feature/bug tracking tool of choice and thought it would be interesting to see if we could use Jira to manage our agile projects rather than have more than one tool. One of the cornerstones of an agile project is tracking your velocity. This is essentially a measure of how much work you are doing over a period of time. Agile projects are run in

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Reflecting on the Impossible

I was explaining to Brad (a fellow JIRA dev) the other day about some code I had written to find functional tests that were missing from our Test Suite and therefore not running automatically. "Basically it uses reflection to find all the concrete classes under the ztests package that implement TestCase," I told him. "But that's impossible!" he replied. As software developers, we are asked to do the impossible all the time. The standard response is to look down our nose at the unsuspecting sales-type.

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Reminder: AtlasCamp is three weeks away

Just a quick post to remind everyone that AtlasCamp, our first-ever developer camp, is approaching and you need to book your reservation soon. We're down to the last few spots, so don't wait too long. Also, feel free to join the discussion on the AtlasCamp page about the topics that we'll cover. There have been some great ideas generated already. It's going to be an very interesting two days. See you there!

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Talk nerdy with Atlassian – at our October User Groups

This October I'll be travelling around the world for quite a few Atlassian events. We'll be holding Atlassian User Groups in Toronto, New York, Berlin and Munich within just 4 weeks throughout the month. Why do I dev-blog this, you ask? Well, if you are a plugin developer (or intend to) but your CFO just cut your travel budget and you can't make it to AtlasCamp in San Francisco, then visiting one of our user groups near you might be the more affordable opportunity to talk nerdy. Our user groups

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