Archives for the tag: dev tools

Hack of the day: Stash Markdown Bookmarklet

I've been writing a lot of documentation lately. On the Stash team we keep the bulk of our developer documentation in the Stash git repository, right alongside our production code. This approach means that as we introduce new plugin points, developers can review and critique the documentation for those plugin points in the same pull request as the code change. This has proved a convenient feedback mechanism and has made keeping our developer documentation up-to-date much easier. We use markdown syntax

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Want to Learn How to Build Plugins?

Have you ever had the desire to add new features or customize Atlassian products?  Well, you can do just that by building your own Atlassian plugin.  We provide the plugin framework and an SDK to make this possible.  If you want to learn more, you’re invited to attend the plugin courses we’re offering on Sept 19th just south of San Francisco in Half Moon Bay. We're offering three classes for Java developers: Getting Started with Atlassian Plugins, Intermediate JIRA Plugin Development, and

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Introducing the REST API Browser and the Atlassian Developer Toolbox

As a developer, it's very rewarding to work with beautiful APIs that just work. Half the battle of building applications against 3rd party APIs is having clear and concise documentation that show great examples. However, sometimes documentation doesn't go far enough. Sometimes, having a tool that allows you to "touch and feel" the API is more productive. Having the ability to play with an API allows for greater discovery and can sometimes lead to better use. At AtlasCamp in September, we demonstrated

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How the GreenHopper team moved from Subversion to Mercurial

tl;dr 6 months after the move to Mercurial and testing different working modes using this DVCS, the GreenHopper team ended up using following Mercurial features: We use clones for "throw away" spikes as well as in case where other teams want to contribute code changes to the GreenHopper code base Each feature is developed in a separate branch inside the main repository. Once complete, the changes are merged back to default and the branch closed Our main repository is hosted on Bitbucket,

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(Press Release) Atlassian Acquires SourceTree, Adds Git support to Bitbucket Code Hosting

SourceTree works with Git, Mercurial and Subversion, and integrates with Bitbucket repositories for both Git and Mercurial   San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) October 6, 2011 - Atlassian, provider of the popular Bitbucket free code hosting service, and maker of collaboration tools for product development teams, announced the acquisition of SourceTree, a popular Mac client for Git and Mercurial distributed version control systems (DVCS) as well as Subversion source control. The company earlier announced

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