Monthly Archives: April 2009

Guidelines for Atlassian REST API Design

We have just published our guidelines for designing REST APIs. Some of our applications already have REST APIs but so far they have been developed in an ad hoc way without too much attention to how other applications implement theirs. The goal of the guidelines is to get more consistent APIs across Atlassian applications so that as a user of those APIs you know what to expect and how to interact with them. We wanted to make this document public for two main reasons. The first one being that we value

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Whither Codegeist?

I'm sorry that we're just now getting around to this post, but a few folks have been asking about this year's Codegeist Plugin Competition. Normally it's run in the spring, which means it should have started weeks ago. This year, we've got a lot going on: Atlassian Summit, the Atlassian Stimulus Package, and major releases of almost all of our products coming in the next few months. So we've decided to postpone Codegeist until the second half of the year. We think we'll have an even better contest

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Instant Atlassian part 3: Instant Backup and Restore

Earlier this week, I showed you a way to set up a JIRA and Confluence server in minutes, and how to customise its URL. Today, I'm going to show you how to back up the data on your Instant Atlassian server in a matter of seconds, and how to restore from your backup in the event of a mishap. So, grab yourself a $5 license while you still can, and read on... Backing up your data Using the same Instant Atlassian tool we used in my previous posts, run the following command: java -jar instant-atlassian-1.1.jar

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Instant Atlassian part 2: Creating a Custom URL

In my previous post I showed you how to get your own Confluence and JIRA server up and running in a few minutes, with the help of this week's amazing $5 license offer (Get one while they last!) and Amazon's EC2 hosting service. Today, I'm going to show you how to set up an easy-to-remember custom URL for your new server. If you followed the instructions from my previous post, your server will have a URL that looks something like http://ec2-192-0-2-73.compute-1.amazonaws.com. The obvious problem

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Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes

This week's offer of $5 licenses puts JIRA and Confluence within reach of even the smallest of teams. You'd be mad not to take advantage of it. You're probably thinking: "Yup, that's a great deal, but I how do I run it?". Anticipating this, I took some 20% time last week to find a way to get you up and running quickly. What I've worked out will get you started with no up-front costs, and running costs that can be less than $5 a week! With a few simple steps, anyone can use Amazon's Elastic Compute

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Confluence and JIRA – 5 users for $5

Yes, you heard correctly We're giving away fully functional 5 user licences of Confluence and JIRA until April 24th. What was that? Only $5 for a 5 user license. Why would we do that? As engineers, many of us have been involved in smaller teams (or even helped establish them!) and understand the difficulties involved in finding affordable software to help a business grow. We all know that good tools help us realise the potential of our ideas and solutions. Atlassian wants to help small businesses,

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