Learn about JIRA 6 with University

The newly designed Atlassian University lessons are now available for JIRA 6. If the newbies on your team don't know the how to add a gadget to a dashboard or save a search filter, we recommend Atlassian University.  With interactive tutorials and videos, you'll stay up to date on all the new JIRA features. Learn about University

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You may remember a blog post I wrote some time ago about Java provisioning with Vagrant. Today I'll be exploring something that rivals and complements that in coolness. Today I would like to tell you about Docker and show you how awesome it is. New to Docker? Here is an intro in their own word: "Docker is an open-source engine which automates the deployment of applications as highly portable, self-sufficient containers which are independent of hardware, language, framework, packaging system

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How Atlassian Uses JIRA: Email Marketing

When I joined the marketing team at Atlassian, I was tasked with ramping up our email program. If your company sends emails to market your product/solution, and you use Atlassian's JIRA, read no further and download the free 'Outgoing Email Workflow' for JIRA now. The problem Atlassian sends a lot of email to its 25,000+ customers. In fact, in the last 12 months we've sent about six million emails ranging in content from our monthly newsletter, JIRA tips, Confluence tips, product announcements,

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Stash 2.5: Public access to projects and repositories

Security versus usability: This is a tradeoff we're all familiar with in software development, and even applies to hosting your code. Part of the challenge of enterprise-grade repository management is the ability to keep your intellectual property secure, while safely exposing the public-facing parts of your code to the people who need to access it. Recently we've given more flexibility and granularity in the way that your code is exposed: 2.0 introduced the ability to protect certain branches

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JIRA goes mobile JIRA 6 brings you a whole new mobile interface. With JIRA mobile you can stay connected and update issues while on the go, so you're never blocking your team. We focused on the core user stories that empower your teams to use JIRA wherever, whenever. With the enhanced issue navigator optimized for the PC and a new mobile interface, you can maximize your productivity, no matter the device. When logging into JIRA from a mobile web browser on an iPhone or Android device,

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Five Confluence features beginners will love

Prior to joining Atlassian on the Confluence Marketing team, I had never used Confluence, so I understand what it's like to learn it from scratch. There are tons of useful features for any kind of Confluence user that I'm still learning, but I found concentrating on a few basics helped me get comfortable quickly. 1. Keep track of Pages with Favorites I quickly realized that there are a few Confluence spaces and pages I visit often, like the Marketing space and my team's page. There are other pages

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