Monthly Archives: December 2008

What Wikis can Learn from Kapla Blocks

Last Christmas my son got a set of Kapla blocks which have since become his favorite toy. For the uninitiated, Kapla blocks are small, flat blocks of wood around 4" x 1" x .25." wide. They are the simplest toy you can think of, even simpler than LEGOS. Most adults look at the blocks and say, "What in the world would I do with a bunch of wooden sticks"? But children know exactly what to do with them. The blocks are so basic they can be morphed into just about anything a child can imagine...a boat...a

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Major milestones for FishEye, Crucible and Clover

  • By Ken Olofsen, Product Marketing Manager - JIRA
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  • On December 31, 2008
During the holidays there are many reasons to celebrate, and for us here at Atlassian, the month of December included some very significant milestones for our developer tools. We now have over 1200 organisations using FishEye to search and navigate their source code repositories, over 650 using Crucible to conduct online peer code reviews, and over 600 using Clover to improve their test coverage.

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Confluence and Technical Documentation

Just a friendly reminder that in 2 weeks our next Voice of the Customer webinar will take place. This webinar will be with Jon Hertzig of OpenCloud who will discuss using Confluence for their product documentation. Register now! OpenCloud provides the telecommunications industry with a real-time Application Server for agile development, deployment and efficient management of person-to-person communications services across current and next generation network technology. OpenCloud also offers specialized

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Switching from Open Source to JIRA; Part 1: How?

  • By Jeff Leyser, Product Marketing Manager
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  • On December 30, 2008
Often times, we're asked about switching from an Open Source Issue Tracking tool to JIRA. This 2 part series will first look at the tools available to help you switch, and then we'll have a Case Study from a customer who made the switch. This time, let's talk about the "how": How do you make the switch? Conversion Tools Let's start with data migration. JIRA ships with data converters for both Bugzilla and Mantis., and they work in the same way: after setting some configuration parameters in the

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You’ve Seen the Movie…Now Watch the Trailer

With our hearts are warm with holiday cheer and our bellies full of egg nog, we'd like to share with you a little video we created to internally promote our recent confluence video series. We hope it brings some joy to all the Bob Cratchits out there stuck behind a monitor, warming themselves on their computer fan. You can check out the three-part part video series here or here. Oh, and we'll send a DVD of the movie Wall-E to the first person to guess which Atlassian's voice was used for the "weeeeekeeeee"

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‘Tis the season to be jolly

  • By Robyn Munro, Marketing Events and Communications Assistant
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  • On December 23, 2008
The extended Sydney Atlassian crew was out for Christmas celebrations at Bicentennial Park earlier this month. It was a scorcher of a day, but we still filled it with plenty of sports, presents, BBQs, and sugary goodness. See more photos from the Sydney Family and Friends Day. The SF crew headed to Yoshi's for a night of cocktails and sushi. We had such a good time there last year, we just had to go again. This time we finsished the evening listening to the wonderful music of the Charlie

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