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This month... Crowd supports OpenID, a social bookmarking plugin is developed for Confluence, JIRA comes with editable worklogs, Atlassian shares its user group pics, Bamboo offers enterprise permissions and more. Happy reading!
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We just released Crowd 1.1, which comes with support for OpenID. There has been lots of speculation regrading whether OpenID is actually useful and I've often asked myself what can OpenID actually do for a company. If you're interested in what OpenID can do for SSO/trust/webapps, then have a read. If you have no idea what OpenID is and want a quick overview, head over to the Crowd 1.1 Release Notes. Massive SSO (Single Sign-On) Enter Crowd: a middle-ware application that provides connectors to applications so that they use the same mechanism for establishing authentication and also provides connectors to different user repositories. As long as all the applications are on the same domain, "seamless" SSO is achieved.
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We recently announced the latest version of Bamboo, our continuous integration (CI) server. One of the new features, enterprise permissions, allows users to set security (plan permissions and global permissions) on individual build plans, as well as on an entire Bamboo system. Bamboo 1.2 also includes external database support, Perforce triggering support, regex labeling of build results, scheduled backups, new plugins and more. Where to next?
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Social bookmarking is useful first because it's bookmarking: a simple way to save something for yourself and come back to it later, but stored on the web and not tied into a specific browser on one machine. But social bookmarking is even more useful because it's social. It becomes one of those magical, shared attention filters. Everyone in the company runs across interesting and useful material in the course of their daily travels on the internet, and by adding a bookmark to the group feed, we're each able to quickly and easily bring that good material to the attention of the whole group. We've found it tremendously useful, but we started thinking about how our customers might want to use it. And that presented some problems. Security is the first major concern. We use the social filter to help us pull out valuable content from the overwhelming tide of information on the public net. But someone in a large company could use the same technique to filter out valuable content from their very own wiki. We wanted to enable and encourage that behaviour by solving the security problem and by putting the bookmarks behind the firewall, and in context. So we wrote the Social Bookmarking Plugin.
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Back in July last year (how time flies), I investigated how we could use caching in our products to improve the user experience. This resulting in creating a framework for serving content that can be cached on the client. We now use this for JIRA, Confluence and Bamboo. The idea is that some resources (css, images, javascript), never change between releases, and so we added 'caching headers' to say 'cache it forever'. You can see how we have achieved that by using on the online services here in the Test caching for Bamboo. What we found, however, when browsing certain sites like http://support.atlassian.com, is that these sites still felt very slow. It turns out that SSL was the culprit!
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We recently had a problem where a customer wasn't able to access JIRA via SSL from IE7 on Windows Vista (and IE 5.5 on WinNT although we never got to test that). Firefox worked fine. IE7 from Windows XP worked fine. The customer was using a self-signed certificate which is perfectly fine, since the browser should simply prompt you to accept the certificate. However, IE7 on Vista only reported: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage. Most likely causes:Continue reading
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Yesterday's Palo Alto user group was a great success. Of the 80 RSVPs, a little over 60 people attended, and in addition there were a dozen folks from Atlassian there. The presentations from Sony Computer Entertainment, Polycom, Apple, Consulting Toolsmiths and Gliffy were first rate and had people talking during the break, birds-of-a-feather breakouts, and mixer afterwards (and I don't mean to leave out Atlassian's presentations from Scott and Josh — great stuff!).
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Here are some blogs and sites we've been tagging on our company del.icio.us feed:
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