Archives for the tag: Bamboo

Coming soon: Bamboo 5 Early Access Program!

We grown-ups don't anticipate Christmas morning like we used to. (Or do we...?) But that doesn't mean we don't get excited about new toys! You may have heard about the deployment awesomeness we're baking into Bamboo 5 at one of our Atlassian RoadTrip stops, at an AUG, or by word of mouth*. If so, you're probably keen to kick the tires on this thing. Well friends, Christmas is coming early this year. In early May we'll kick off the Bamboo 5 Early Access Program (ie, a beta). Milestone builds will

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Make HipChat Your Team’s Command Center

Our customers love HipChat because it's so easy to extend. HipChat connects to over 45 tools that your company uses every day. Here are 5 ways to make HipChat your team's command center and stay on top of everything your team needs to know about. 1. Connect to JIRA and Pivotal Tracker Every company has projects they need to manage. Keeping up with the issues your team needs to address for these projects is a breeze with HipChat. Integrate with project management tools like Atlassian JIRA or Pivotal

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love TestNG

Think back to your early 20's. Remember going out on Halloween or New Year's Eve? No sooner do you walk into a bar than someone in your group starts lobbying to go to some other bar. 'Cuz it's gonna be way better. (In your exasperation - you just ordered a drink for pete's sake! -  you vow that next year you're gonna find a house party instead.) Apologies in advance, but... I'm gonna be "that someone". Replace New Year's Eve with every Monday through Friday. The bar you just walked into

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How I Discovered Rogue Processes Running on our Build Agents

In the process of digging around investigating a performance issue with our internal build agents, I discovered rogue fluxbox processes taking 100% CPU on a large number of our build agents, here's a write up of how I found them. On a particular host you can get a vague idea of how busy a host is by the load average, for example: This doesn't tell you much. How has the value changed over time? We use collectd to collect system statistics from all our Build Engineering systems (physical and

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Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012 (part 2)

...and we're back! Just one work-week until Santa (who adopted Kanban last year, and thankfully the elves are not in crunch mode). Let's kick it off by resuming our Top 10 countdown. #5: Build from Custom Revision It's pretty common to have Bamboo poll your repository for changes every 3-5 minutes. And it's pretty common for more than one change to be committed during that interval. Usually that's no big deal. But sometimes troubleshooting a bug, or making a release candidate, requires more

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Top 10 Bamboo Features of 2012

Oh December, how we love thee... sugar plums dance upon office snack tables, Hollywood finally releases the year's Oscar contenders to theaters, and you can't so much as refill your egg-nog without tripping on a Top 10 list. So in the grand tradition of news anchors, the Billboard charts and every teen magazine in publication, we've put together a list of our own. Drumroll please!... #10: Rerun Builds Ever released a broken build to production? It's ok, you can admit it - we're all friends here.

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