Marketplace Monday: Connect Databases with nFeed for JIRA

Getting all your data repositories in sync is a painful process. You might find yourself manually copying data from other sources on to JIRA issues. If filling up field after field with the same information has become a nightmare, nFeed for JIRA by Valiantys is a fantastic solution to display information directly from your database! nFeed, developed by the French team Valiantys, is much more than a simple database connector for JIRA; cascading selections, web service integration, and more dramatically

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JIRA Tip of the Month: How to Receive Notifications in HipChat

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here at Atlassian, we live in HipChat, the fastest way to communicate with everyone on your team. The brutal truth is, many of us will respond to an instant message before a new email. When it comes to maximizing work productivity, it's no secret that we're not big fans of email. If you prefer JIRA notifications via

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Marketplace Monday: CUTE Theming for JIRA and Confluence

What would you get if you crossed the movie Inception with the Atlassian Marketplace? Leonardo DiCaprio going inside devs' dreams to close out thorny JIRA issues? CUTE for Confluence and JIRA by Communardo Software isn't quite that awesome, but it's pretty close. It offers plugins inside of plugins for JIRA and Confluence, making theming and UI customization for your wiki or issue tracker easy and modular. CUTE helps JIRA and Confluence users make modifications to their instance without the

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Our world is full of distractions. Facebook notifications, Tweets, RSS feeds, you name it. The bevy of content on the internet all fight to control your customers attention. In order to keep readers engaged and coming back for more, keeping a consistent editorial cadence of relevant and high-quality content is critical. At Atlassian, we take pride in the regularity and quality of our external blogs, and while a single blog might seem like a simple process on the outside, it takes a lot of coordination

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12 Favorites of JIRA in 2012

Today, December 21st 2012, marks the end of the Mayan calendar, and many speculate we'll have an Apocalypse before the day is over. If you're reading this, you're either just as skeptical as I am, or you love the iPad you got for Christmas so much that you want to spend your precious last hours reading blog posts online. It's the end of yet another awesome year in the land of JIRA. Let's take a look back at some of the highlights of 2012. Fun Projects JIRA-gami: If you're looking for stocking

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JIRA tip of the month: take a moment for yourself

The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian's tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. If you spend a lot of time in JIRA, take a moment to check out all the personal settings available. It might save you a click or two every time you use JIRA, prevent you from missing important updates, or even keep unnecessary emails out of your inbox! I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about JIRA, but I

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