Monthly Archives: March 2009

How can we make you (even more) productive in Eclipse?

At the end of the day, all of us developers know that real work happens in the code. And IDEs like Eclipse have come a long way to help us with that: rich editing, code hyper-linking, on the fly compilation, etc. But invariably, our daily lives gets entangled in all sorts of other stuff around the development lifecycle - issue trackers, build systems, continuous integration systems, code review systems, wikis, IM, the list just goes on. All of this takes you out of your "integrated environment".

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Atlassian’s 20% Time now out of Beta

In my previous blog about 20% Time, I gave a summary of Atlassian's "20% Experiment" but left readers hanging as to the future of 20% Time at Atlassian. Well, I'm glad to end that suspense now and officially announce that Atlassian is continuing with 20% Time, rather than keeping it under the label of being an "experiment". We get a lot of questions about the 'nuts and bolts' of how we've implemented 20% Time, so I'm happy to share the details. The Goal of 20% Time To encourage innovation

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Customizing your cloud

In Bamboo 2.2, we've released support for running builds in the cloud with the Elastic Bamboo feature. Of course, like so many other features with Atlassian products, we wanted to make the feature useful for ourselves right from the start. However, whilst the basic premise of being able to unlock elastically compute resources for our builds is undoubtedly promising, the approach was not without its own challenges. For a start, builds were not entirely "environment agnostic", in that they assume some

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Universal Wiki Converter – Now with SSL Support

We recently released version 3.3.0 of the Universal Wiki Converter (full release notes), a content migration platform that helps users get their content into Confluence.

Along with the miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improvements, there are two new features that I'm excited we can support now. First, we now have a Trac Converter module, compliments of Stefan Gybas. I had another Trac user who was willing to figure out how to build the UWC himself so he could get access to it early 2 weeks ago, so I'm pleased it's finally public. Secondly, the long-awaited SSL Support feature is finally available.

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System Environments in Support

If you've ever submitted a Support Request to Atlassian Support, you've probably submitted your system environment to us as well to help with diagnosing your issue. The system info pages have been evolving over the years to provide us answers to common questions such as what OS you're on, how many issues does your JIRA have, what plugins you have installed--in short, it assists in minimizing e-mail ping-pong with customers without compromising anything confidential. After years of collecting

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