Monthly Archives: April 2012

How Gliffy is managing the risk of re-writing their product in HTML5

This is a guest blog post by Chris Kolhardt, CEO and Founder of Gliffy, a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams. In this post Chris shares the process, risks, and rewards of migrating away from the outdated technology that powers the editor in Gliffy Confluence Plugin, a web based diagramming tool that makes it easy to insert UML, wireframes, network diagrams, flow charts, and more right into your Confluence pages. How many times have you looked

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Atlassian Devs Talking JIRA Mobile Connect on iDeveloper Live Podcast

UPDATED: The recording of iDeveloper Live Episode 50 featuring JIRA Mobile Connect is now available for download and on iTunes.  We launched JIRA Mobile Connect (JMC), a free library for JIRA that allows mobile developers to gather in-app feedback from their users, back in October 2011. Then, we introduced iPad compatibility and HockeyApp integration for JMC in January 2012, so that developers could seriously beta test their apps before releasing them to the wild. Now, our very own Nick

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On Conference Talks

My last few weeks have been consumed by conferences -- hosting, attending, speaking at, and planning for. As a developer I appreciate not only great technical talks, but also great speakers who can deliver them. I've been attending (and sometimes speaking at) tech conferences since the late 90s, but it wasn't until the Web 2.0 days when I really started paying attention and appreciating great talks by great speakers. Unfortunately, most conferences are riddled with boring, uninteresting talks and

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