G'day folks, The Bonfire Team has just released Bonfire 2.6 and it has a killer feature that will particularly excite teams testing native applications. If you are testing a Windows, Mac or Linux desktop application try the following and let us know if it solves your native application testing needs: 1) Get the image Mac, Windows and Linux have keyboard shortcuts that allow you to capture a screenshot of either the whole desktop or the active window. On Mac OS X use Cmd+Shift+Ctrl+4. Windows

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Since the beginning of time, teams have struggled to work together, and yet even today it's still incredibly difficult to drive a group of people towards a common goal. Modern business is sink or swim, demanding high levels of collaboration from teams to achieve even higher results. Unfortunately, we still don't have team collaboration figured out, as most teams swim without life vests - desperately working just to keep their heads above water. Your Team May Be At Risk Is your team under

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It's no secret working together as a team is really hard. and it's only amplified by the modern business environment in which successfully driving a group of people towards a common goal is needed to at least compete, let a lone flourish. Somehow we've spent decades over-complicating team collaboration, creating an illusion that our teams are well-oiled machines geared for productivity. The sad reality is your team is likely suffering from: an over-reliance on email to share and discuss

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Friends, do you have trouble finding the ketchup in your own refrigerator? Do you require Google Maps just to get to the corner store? Ever want to teleport from your seat at the game to that one beer stand across the stadium that sells your favorite craft brew? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you'll be as excited as we are about this weekend's Atlassian OnDemand release - full of goodies for the navigationally-challenged and busy user! Members of the OnDemand team have

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Note: This post concerns the Download edition of Crucible. When your development team reaches a certain size it can become hard to have a clean code review process. Remote developers can't pair, you have more and more changesets filling in the review queue and more people involved in reviews. You need a way to streamline that process and keep track of all the changes that need to be looked at. Crucible solves these issues by offering a way to peer review code asynchronously - identify people

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Have you ever had the desire to add new features or customize Atlassian products?  Well, you can do just that by building your own Atlassian plugin.  We provide the plugin framework and an SDK to make this possible.  If you want to learn more, you’re invited to attend the plugin courses we’re offering on Sept 19th just south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay. We're offering three classes for Java developers: Getting Started with Atlassian Plugins, Intermediate JIRA Plugin Development, and

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