Atlassian Developer Blog: Comments

Comment on "A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK"

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:22:08 -0800

Of course it does. What could you be thinking of? BTW, there's little more sinister than fairies, especially when they're in a bad mood. :)

Thanks Eric!

- Sarah Maddox

Comment on "A tech writer gets intimate with the Atlassian Plugin SDK"

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:32:44 -0800

So - does WTF REALLY REALLY stand for WebApp Tutorial Fairy, or is it something more sinister?

LOL.

Great article!

- Eric

Comment on "jQuery Bondage"

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:34:36 -0800

Sebastian - very trippy! Time folding over onto itself.

- m3tropolis

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:00:24 -0800

Hi Joe,

I don't think this problem is anything specifically to do with the Instant Atlassian tool, because it was developed and tested on a Mac.

My colleague Nick has just run into a similar problem with Java on Mac OS X 10.5. We think it might be because he has changed the "CurrentJDK" soft link.

The recommended way to change your default JDK in Mac OS X is to use /Applications/Utilities/Java Preferences, or to set the JAVA_HOME environment variable.

I hope this helps.

- Adrian Hempel

Comment on "Make Your Code Agile: Refactoring"

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:58:56 -0800

Hi Nelson,

I don't mind publishing your comment, but it doesn't seem to have anything to do with refactoring. In future try to make your comments relevant to the topic.

- Chris Mountford

Comment on "Make Your Code Agile: Refactoring"

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:18:14 -0800

Refactoring can be a huge waste of resources. A great deal of it is waste due to a lack of knowledge or experience, especially when code is quickly slapped together without consulting the team on its design. Perhaps someone on the team has some valuable experience to design it better in the first place. For example, I (a lowly bachelors of computer science) was being lectured on the high productivity possible with an advanced degree by such an obviously bright individual (he was good). I asked him to show me an example of what he meant, how he was able to achieve this much greater productivity. He was working on a device driver, that he had no business working on since he did not understand the subtle basics about it! He was going to create a massive set of unnecessary software (but do it superficially quickly using agile techniques). So I let him do a bit of show and tell and then shared my insights into the subject matter and let him benefit from insight that comes from subject matter expertise. After the shock wore off, he abandoned the effort, finding that my already existing solution was more efficiently designed and coded. Understand the domain first, design, code and THEN refactor if necessary. But avoid refactoring due to poor understanding. Some folks are regressing to cowboy programming and skipping the "time-consuming" research and development phase on seemingly easy yet deceptively complex issues.

- Nelson Perez

Comment on "Pair Programming is Kryptonite!"

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:04:19 -0800

Perhaps looser group programming IS beneficial, though, right? I see from photos of the Atlassian environment that there tends not to be walls so programmers can communicate with each other and work together as needed. This seems to work very well for open-lab teams I have worked with. But when it comes to working on something new and "out there", adding another body or brain to the mix just slows me down. But I guess what I am talking about is just good ole peer reviews and not pair-programming. But perhaps it qualifies as limited pair programming, just on weak aspects of the code that could benefit from a more senior person's insights. But I prefer feedback versus someone babysitting me through the darn change. I don't need no stinking softare babysitter.

- Nelson Perez

Comment on "Pair Programming is Kryptonite!"

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:24:59 -0800

Anonymous,

Perhaps it depends on what you're working on? There are plenty of difficult problems out there.

Development speed is not the only metric that determines what is "useful" or measures business value. Quality can also be valuable.

At Atlassian if we ship a new version of a product sooner but it has (more) bugs in it, that will result in a significant expense in supporting the product. Not to mention the loss of confidence that our customers might have in our products. Then we have to go back and fix the bugs, so if we add that time to the original time spent we may discover that it wasn't faster in the end. Often this additional time is not attributed to the original feature work and the true cost is never measured.

If only it was as simple as you suggest.

- Chris Mountford

Comment on "Pair Programming is Kryptonite!"

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:32:52 -0800

Pair programming is only useful for certain devs:
junior + junior = faster for both
junior + senior = faster for junior, slower for senior
senior + senior = slower for both

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:03:03 -0800

ZoneInfo: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/zi/ZoneInfoMappings (No such file or directory)
ZoneInfo: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/zi/ZoneInfoMappings (No such file or directory)
ZoneInfo: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/zi/ZoneInfoMappings (No such file or directory)
ZoneInfo: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/zi/ZoneInfoMappings (No such file or directory)
ZoneInfo: /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.5.0/Home/lib/zi/ZoneInfoMappings (No such file or directory)
java.lang.NullPointerException

the jar tool was run on Mac OS X 10.5 - software update says there's nothing to update, but I don't exactly trust Apple's handling of Java (like how to get JDK)

java -version
java version "1.5.0_20"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_20-b02-315)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_20-141, mixed mode, sharing)

any thoughts on what's going wrong?

- Joe Shirk

Comment on " Text trimming with CSS Overflow property..."

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:59:09 -0800

see http://www.bramstein.com/projects/text-overflow/

- Ori

Comment on "yUML for simple Confluence diagrams"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:46:32 -0800

Question mark doesn't seem to be HTML encoded.

- Yuriy Zubarev

Comment on "Performance testing with JMeter"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:03:54 -0800

Hi Shan,

That's very strange - I've never seen negative numbers. I would suggest asking on the JMeter Users mailing list.

George

- George Barnett

Comment on "Performance testing with JMeter"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:02:42 -0800

Hi Girlie,

From the data you have provided, it looks like the test has run fine. I would suggest adding in some of the listeners I mention above. Configure them to save the data to a result file which can then be parsed later to display the results.

George

- George Barnett

Comment on "Performance testing with JMeter"

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:57:57 -0800

Hi George,

I tried running the test from the command line, but instead of displaying the summary results I'm getting this message:

D:\Jmeter\bin>jmeter -n -t Test.jmx
Created the tree successfully using Google_search_csv.jmx
Starting the test @ Fri Oct 23 07:50:29 CST 2009 (1256255429500)
Waiting for possible shutdown message on port 4445
Tidying up ... @ Fri Oct 23 07:50:34 CST 2009 (1256255434468)
... end of run

Did I miss something?

Thanks in advance,
Girlie

- girlie

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:29:24 -0800

Hi Adrian,

Sorry, disregard the problem about provide the keys. I create a new image and rebundle them. Now it works!!

Tks!!

- Adilson Jardim

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:12:29 -0800

Hi Adrian,

I bought $10 starter licenses and complete the Atlassian Dragon Quest at Amazon Cloud with EC2 and S3( for all data and configurations files). After that, I rebundle my AMI.

The problem is that the key for the atlassian products must be provide every start of the instance.

I would like to take advantage of start/stop scheme like you show at this post and then automate all process.

Can you have any tip for solve the problem of provide all license (six) for each restart ?

Thks!!

- Adilson Jardim

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:55:46 -0800

Hi Thad,

I'm sorry, I can't provide an ETA for this, as it's not part of our scheduled development.

If you need a hosted solution, you should consider our hosted products, JIRA Studio, JIRA Hosted and Confluence Hosted.

JIRA Studio combines JIRA, Confluence, FishEye, Crucible and Subversion into a single, integrated product.

The benefit of our hosted products is that we look after backups, upgrades and other maintenance for you, and we provide full support should you need it.

- Adrian Hempel

Comment on "Setting up JIRA and Confluence in minutes"

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:57:23 -0800

We just took advantage of the $10 starter license offer and plan on deploying to AWS. We would like to use "Instant Atlassian" to create our server, but it sounds like you are still working on that. Do you have an ETA on when the new AMI might be available?

Thanks!

- Thad West

Comment on "Dragon Slayer Supplement: Action Issues with Commit Commands"

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:23:32 -0800

Thank you very much for the solution.

We still had to add the two paths
   /plugins/servlet/streams
   /plugins/servlet/commitnotification
to the
   URL Paths to Allow:
list in the FishEye trusted application configuration in JIRA

- Andreas Würl