Content Scheduler for Confluence: February’s Codegeist Add-on of the Month

On February 1, we launched the latest addition of Atlassian's add-on development competition, Codegeist. We invited developers everywhere to build add-ons for JIRA, Confluence, Stash, and our developer tools, with the promise of $65,000 in cash prizes and the opportunity to sell their add-on commercially on the Atlassian Marketplace. This year's prize format is a little different–we're awarding a prize for the best add-on submitted during each month of the competition. That means $10,000 each

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Introducing SourceTree for Windows – a free desktop client for Git

We're thrilled to introduce the latest addition to the Atlassian distributed version control system (DVCS) family – SourceTree for Windows. SourceTree is a free Git desktop client for developers on Windows. Say goodbye to the command line and use the full capabilities of Git through SourceTree's beautifully simple interface (and stop being jealous of what your Mac friends are using). A simple, powerful Git client SourceTree for Windows simplifies how you interact with Git repositories

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Instant Java provisioning with Vagrant and Puppet: Stash one click install

Being an efficiency and productivity freak, I always try to streamline and automate repetitive tasks. As such, my antennas went up immediately when I started hearing about Provisioning frameworks; I began to incorporate them more and more in my development workflow. A perfect opportunity to take advantage of this came up while ramping up as Developer Advocate here at Atlassian. Have you heard of Vagrant yet? It is awesome. Why? It automates much of the boilerplate work we developers have to endure

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(Case Study) Stash Add-on Developer Experience – StiltSoft

StiltSoft Headquartered: Gomel, Belarus Founded: 2010 Employees: 5 Add-ons developed: 13 StiltSoft developed one of the first add-ons for Atlassian Stash. Their first add-on,  Awesome Graphs for Stash, hit a home run with over 2200 downloads to date. We reached out to Maxim Kuzmich at StiltSoft to ask him about StiltSofts experience with developing add-ons for Stash. The Interview How long have you been developing add-ons for Atlassian products? We have been developing Atlassian

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Stash 2.2: Customize your workflow with Git hooks

  Interested in the latest Stash release? Check out What’s New » No two Git workflows are the same. Every development team is different and so are the workflows they are using. It is impossible to come up with one single "best practice" that will work for all development teams out there. In Stash 2.1 we simplified Git development workflow by providing important information that affect the changes in a pull request – JIRA issues and Bamboo builds. Today's release of Stash 2.2 takes

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Hooked on Stash

One of the most highly requested features in Stash has been commit hooks. Git has an in-built mechanism called "hooks" which allows you to hook into just before and after a push event. In Git, hooks are scripts that must be placed on the filesystem in each repository, which requires a system administrator with the appropriate access to copy scripts around manually. That's not exactly a great user experience - we can do better! We started dreaming up ways to make Git hooks more accessible to the

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