NetBeans Plugin for Bamboo Continuous Integration

It seems the Atlassian Bamboo continuous integration product has IDE plugins for Eclipse, IntelliJ, and Visual Studio, but not NetBeans. http://www.atlassian.com/software/ide-connectors/overview

Bamboo vs Hudson ?

Recently on Answers.Atlassian.com someone posted the question “What value addition does Bamboo provides for automation testers over Hudson/Jenkins?” : at this thread https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/36248/what-value-addition-does-bamboo-provides-for-automation-testers-over-hudson-jenkins?page=1 Here’s the high-level summary I provided based on a quick analysis I recently did between the two tools.   Bamboo is part of the Atlassian tool suite and as such provides great cross-app [...]

Oracle Releases Java 7 Update 3 (JDK 1.7.0.3)

Oracle has released the Java 7 Update 3 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Java™ SE 7 Update 3 The full internal version number for this update release is 1.7.0_03-b04 (b05 in Windows, where “b” means “build”). The external version number is 7u3. Olson Data 2011l Java SE 7u3 contains [...]

Oracle Releases Java 6 Update 31 (JDK 1.6.0.31)

Oracle has released the Java 6 Update 31 JDK. The following are some of the updates and bugs fixed: Java™ SE 6 Update 31 The full internal version number for this update release is 1.6.0_31-b04 (b05 in Windows, where “b” means “build”). The external version number is 6u31. Olson Data 2011l Java SE 6u31 contains [...]

Atlassian Greenhopper 5.9 Released Today

ATlassian has released Greenhopper 5.9 today per this blog announcement. Greenhopper enables Agile teams to use JIRA in a more Agile-like manner providing great charts, task board, and more. One interesting thing is the comparisons I have heard people make between Greenhopper and Rally is that Rally posseses additional strengths around charting. The last few [...]

Atlassian Summit Conference Announced

The Atlassian Summit Conference has been announced and there is currently a call for speakers. Normally I wouldn’t take interest in a relatively small vendor conference, but having worked with Atlassian products for the last year I have a keen interest. The conference runs May 30 – June 1 in San Francisco, California. The high-level [...]

Installing Atlassian SDK with NetBeans

To create custom plugins and functionality for Atlassian products, you can download and use the Atlassian plugin SDK following instructions here : https://developer.atlassian.com/display/DOCS/Installing+the+Atlassian+Plugin+SDK The key part is to add the atlassian SDK BIN directory to your path. After the plugin project is initially created the Maven project comes up as “unloadable” in the NetBeans Projects [...]

Documenting My Experiences Working with Atlassian Products

I will shortly be starting a series of articles and observations about the Atlassian suites of products such as : Bamboo JIRA Greenhopper Bonfire Crowd Confluence Gliffy Fisheye Crucible Clover I have begun to use many of these products and their related plugins both during my day job and through many projects at night. As [...]