Monthly Archives: January 2009

Plugin of the Month Webinar on Gliffy

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:00 AM PST/18:00 GMT marks the next Plugin of the Month (POM) webinar with Chris Kohlhardt of Gliffy. We are honored to have Chris, Gliffy's CEO and founder, present in our first POM webinar of 2009. Gliffy is an easy to use plugin for Confluence which allows you to create professional-looking flowcharts, diagrams, floor plans, technical drawings and more. Web-based Gliffy is so successful and popular, it comes bundled in Confluence Hosted. Being an Atlassian partner

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2009 Email Brevity Challenge – Who’s game?

In time for the new year Hutch Carpenter and Jennifer Leggio introduced the 2009 Email Brevity Challenge. The rules are simple...limit every work-related email to 140 characters as if it were a tweet. I analyzed my last 20 emails to see how close I am to achieving micro-emailer status. The bad news is that my average is well above the 140-character limit. The good news is that I have a clear path for getting there. Here are the results: My emails range in length from 0 to 1,866 characters. The

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Moving from Open Source To JIRA; Part 2: Customer Case Study

This is the second part of the two part series on making the switch from a Open Source issue tracker to JIRA, our commercial issue tracking tool. You can read part one (how to move) here. To find out what it's actually like to make the switch, I spoke with Preston Tollinger, who made the move about a year and a half ago. Preston is CTO of Cellfire, a US-based mobile software company that allows consumers to access coupons and deals from brand-name merchants nationwide, through their cell phone.

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