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Atlassian has added a continuous integration service as a new feature to their GitHub Cloud product. It’s called GitHub Pipelines and it is similar to Travis CI for GitHub offering a nice integration for continuous integration/delivery pipelines for projects hosted on GitHub. It’s still in the beta phase and requires a sign-up but nevertheless I’d like to demonstrate the current state of this service and how easy it is to add scripted pipelines to a project. ...

HipChat is Atlassian’s alternative to Slack and its solution to team collaboration chats. Atlassian Connect offers developer tools to bootstrap applications, connect to Atlassian’s cloud products with easy and in combination with HipChat’s REST APIs allows us to write integrations for such a chat server in no time. In the following tutorial I’d like to show how to write an integration within a few steps using Atlassian Connect, Node.js and Express and how to connect the integration to a HipChat server. ...

Apache Camel not only is one of my favourite frameworks ever but it also allows the humble developer to create a full blown chat bot within a few lines of code and using the Camel XMPP component. In the following tutorial, we’re going to create a simple chat bot and since Atlassian’s HipChat basic plan is now free for unlimited users, we’re using HipChat as our play- and testing ground for the bot. ...

Blueprint is a new API in Confluence 5 that allows developers to create new content elements and to hook into the Confluence “create” dialogue – not to be confused with OSGi blueprints, the CSS blueprint framework or Tinkerpop Blueprints here. Content may be added using simple XHTML templates, dynamic templates enriched with data from context providers or even customized JavaScript dialogues. Another feature is, that pages of a specific blueprint type may be aggregated in a collector view that displays all pages created with the specific blueprint ...

Recently after a long sprint planning meeting I had the pleasure to spend some time writing down the results of the team’s task breakdown in JIRA. In our process, each user story is documented as a JIRA issue and each task from the breakdown is saved as a subtask for the parent issue. Because I am too lazy in this situation I wrote the following plugin that allowed me to quickly create multiple subtasks for a selected JIRA issue. ...

Figure 1. Pirate-Ninja-Unicorn Logo Happy news for us, Theresa and I we’ve won the Atlassian Codegeist Competition 2012 with our Stash Readme Parser Plugin in the category: Best Stash Plugin. We had two other plugins in the game, the Stash QR Code Plugin and the HTTP Request Workflow Function for Jira If you’re interested please take a look at the plugins in the Atlassian Marketplace our funny looking Pirate Ninja Unicorn Website or the project’s overview in my blog. ...

I’ve released a new plugin for the popular Confluence Wiki that extends the user profile with new tab that displays the user’s vcard as a QR code. This allows an easy import of address data from Confluence to your smartphone. Features Display of a Confluence user’s contact data as a QR code in a separate tab in the user profile More to be implemented .. Installation Just download the plugin from Atlassian’s Plugin Exchange and install it using the Universal Plugin Manager in your Confluence’s administration area That’s all .. nothing to configure here .. ...

I have created a new, free plugin for Confluence, the popular enterprise wiki. The plugin allows you to notify users of ongoing discussions in comments on a confluence page by posting a specific token including the user’s name like this: “@username:” Features Configurable notification settings in the administration area Several placeholders to be used in the e-mail template for the notifications User filtering to avoid sending duplicate e-mails For more detailed information take a look at the Maven generated project website ...

You’re using the popular Confluence wiki? You’re using its RPC/SOAP API and missing a function you really need? Just extend the capabilities of the Confluence RPC API by programming a custom web service component – it is really easy and also well documented. In this tutorial we’re going to take a look on how to quickly implement a SOAP service, securing it and putting its methods in a transactional context. Prerequisites Maven >=2 JDK >= 5 Confluence Wiki >= 3.0 (for a quick installation guide take a look at this article) SoapUI for Testing ...

Sometimes one needs to look up license details of a running Confluence system .. perhaps for creating a commercial plugin or to display recommendations dependant from the license used. For this reason there are a few possibilities for receiving some license information from the Confluence API or the velocity context. Note: This article is outdated since the Atlassian Marketplace was launched and a shiny new licensing API was added. Until this article is updated I strongly recommend to take a closer look at the detailed information that Atlassian is providing in the Developer Documentation. ...