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What 3 Dev Tools Do You Rely on Most?

Check out this post discussing the requirements and solution one developer has found. It's hard not to be pleased to see that JIRA has been flexible enough to cover so many bases. Suresh Krishna writes: Few members felt that i was overusing JIRA, but at the end of the day i am happy that i have to take care of only 3 tools. This is a nice visual case study on the use of JIRA throughout the development lifecycle. So what are the other 2 tools? They're mentioned in the post as well as in the title

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Newsweek Bulletin: IT & Communications

When NASA needed a project collaboration and information-sharing system for its Kennedy Space Center, it turned to Atlassian's Confluence technology. So did Deutsche Bank. And Boeing, and BMW, and hundreds of the world's biggest corporations. Right now, there's no brighter shooting star in Australian IT than Sydney-based Atlassian. A really nice article here about Atlassian and founders Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. One quote from Scott that caught my attention, "There was a lot of free

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Wall Street Journal Wiki Articles

The Wall Street Journal has published two articles about enterprise wikis, both of which mention Atlassian customers and their use of wikis for collaboration and knowledge management: Mr. Yolton's group put the most relevant questions and answers on a wiki and started encouraging people in the so-called SAP community -- employees, software developers, customers and so on -- to contribute. Mr. Yolton uses software called Confluence from Atlassian Software Systems Pty. Ltd. of Sydney, Australia. You

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Newsweek Bulletin: Smart 100

Congratulations go out to Atlassian co-founders and CEOs, Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes, for making the finalists for the Smart 100, a list of "a new generation of entrepreneurs that are changing not just the nature of the internet, but threatening traditional PC software with extinction." Seven years ago, Atlassian’s co-founders Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes correctly predicted the internet would usher in a new type of software that would let users share knowledge in a way not possible

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Confluence makes list of 80 Tools for Publishing and Development Initiatives

The Online Education Database recently published this robust list of 80 Open Education Resource (OER) tools for publishing and development initiatives. Among these initiatives is a focus on collaborative educational efforts. We are proud to have our wiki, Confluence, included in this vast list of great online tools. Currently, Confluence is being used by a number of academic customers, including Duke, Stockholm University, Yale, Harvard Business School, and Queensland University of Technology. For

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Test Run for JIRA Users

Test Run is a tool for developers to create new tests and test plans. A couple of days ago they released a new version that was modified specifically to help JIRA users track bugs in Test Run. Jira is unique among other bug tracking systems in that the bug IDs it produces are not exclusively numeric. This made it difficult, if not impossible for those using Jira to integrate with Test Run's bug tracking capabilities. If you're using Test Run and JIRA, you can read about the changes for JIRA here.

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