Monthly Archives: September 2010

AtlasCamp 2010: More Stoked Than Ever

I have something to confess: I am still stoked. Now more than ever, actually; somebody should really call an ambulance or order me a pizza or something. It's pretty serious. My continued stokedness is due not to the agenda that was published a few weeks back, nor my recent discovery that Atlassian is actually paying for me to stay in the hotel in Half Moon Bay instead of my seriously-no-air-conditioning-or-double-paned-windows-having apartment in Oakland for a couple nights (nor, while I'm at

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Summit 2010 Highlights – Building Plugins with Groovy

Groovy is a dynamic programing language based on the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) with features for improved productivity. For Java developers, it's a great way to get the benefits of dynamic languages such as Python and perl without having to learn a lot of new syntax and object models. At Atlassian Summit 2010, Paul King, a major contributor to the Groovy code base, gave a lightning talk demonstrating how Groovy can easily be used to create Atlassian plugins with far less code than if you used

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