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The Fastest Way to Create Rich Content Online

Raise your hand if you like magic? I don't mean pulling rabbits out of hats or illusions that make coins disappear from behind ears. I'm talking about the the real stuff. How cool would it be to have the power of your imagination's greatest sorcerer? The latest release of Confluence 4.1 brings that dream just a little bit closer with Autoconvert, transforming the links you paste into the editor, such as, Confluence pages, JIRA issues, YouTube videos, Skitch images, Flickr photo streams,

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Continuous Deploy One Byte at a Time (or, “How to Eat an Elephant”): part 1

We've been talking about continuous deployment here on the Atlassian Dev Tools blog.  Many of you are already sold on the idea, and some of you are putting it into practice already.  But others may be reading these posts thinking "Continuous deployment sounds wonderful, but my hurdles are so many and so high, I wouldn't even know how to start!" Sound familiar?  If so, read on into our two part blog series about breaking into Continuous Deployment one step at a time.  The first blog will

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Atlassian Foundation helps save the planet

It's a little known fact that Atlassians have green blood. You could cut one to see, but that's probably not a good idea. Especially if the Atlassian concerned is holding our weapon of choice, the long-handled lopper. A few days ago, a group of us went out to help Conservation Volunteers Australia save the planet. Our mission: To rid (a small part of) Lane Cove National Park of the noxious weed, privet. Privet, like many other non-native plants, simples loves Australia. It's taking over

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Developer Lives Saved with Portal Device

Science tells us that when a software developer goes head to head with a moving car, the car wins.  This is getting expensive for us, and so the lab boys have come up with a better way. We've installed portals in our two office locations in Sydney here at the Atlassian Software Enrichment Centre, saving our staff many exhilarating but risky street-crossings every day. The portals allow staff to have ad-hoc meetings and conversations by transmitting light and sound. Physical objects do not

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Spot the Difference in Confluence 4.1

One of my favorite games as a kid was 'Spot the Difference'. I loved scouring pictures for minute details and deviations. With all the new features coming in Confluence 4.1, it only seemed natural to create our own version. Now's your chance to spot all the new features coming your way tomorrow in Confluence 4.1! Spot the difference! OK, here's how this works: Take a close look at the page on the left being created in Confluence 4.0 Compare it with the page on the right, being created

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Measure Your Wiki’s Activity with Google Analytics for Confluence

This is a guest post by David Simpson, Senior Developer at AppFusions, and creator of both the Google Analytics for Confluence and Webtrends Analytics for Confluence plugins. Is your Confluence Wiki adoption GROWING? You introduced Confluence Wiki into your organization months ago. Over time it's been getting busier and busier. "This is good!", you think, "The early days were slow, but adoption is picking up!" The activity on your Confluence Dashboard is an endless stream

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