Monthly Archives: September 2009

Codegeist IV: Release Early, Release often

We've got a bit over a week left in Codegeist IV. With over $50k in cash and prizes up for grabs, there's a lot riding on this contest. We've already seen the first few entries go up on the Entries page. I just wanted to take a second to encourage everyone to get your entries posted as soon as you can. I know that there's a rather overwhelming bias toward procrastination here, but let me urge you to try to overcome that tendency. As I said last year: The plugins that were submitted early had the

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Writing Plugins in Scala

Why Scala? Scala is currently gaining a lot of traction in the Java community, for a number of reasons. Twitter replaced it's Ruby-based messaging backbone with one written in Scala. It also has a lot going for it as a language, and also compiles to bytecode just as Java does (Martin Odersky wrote both the Scala compiler and the current javac reference compiler). What does this language have over Java? There's a lot, and some of it certainly looks fairly strange compared to Java. Examples of some

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Come to AtlasCamp – but don't take our word for it

AtlasCamp is just around the corner. In fact, there is less then 1 week left before our group room rate expires. So if you're planning on attending, get on it! If you're not planning on attending, you're nuts. This is your only chance to get one-on-one time with Atlassian developers and the founders for three days straight. We expect the attendance to be 2-to-1, customers to Atlassians. Check out what the developers that attended last year are saying. Matt Doar gave the event a great shout-out

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Ross Rowe on why you should come to AtlasCamp

Ross just put up a great post about why he's coming to AtlasCamp and why you should too. As Ross says: AtlasCamp isn’t a boring junket where you sit through endless PowerPoint presentations, it’s fast paced and hands on with lots of coding and technical sessions. I was fortunate enough to attend last year’s AtlasCamp, and I found it to be a fantastic experience. It was enlightening to hear from some of the top plugin developers in person about their thoughts and ideas for how they can make

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You think being a Web Developer is not enough to win 5,000 bucks? Think again!

This years Codegeist competition features a new category called Best Theme. It's on the outside what counts for this category. No Java skills required - Confluence can be themed purely with CSS. If you posses the Web Design chops to turn Confluence into a product that would win the Apple design award, you can take home $5,000 and much more.

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