Atlassian Maven Repository is back online
Updated 1:38pm PST, November 23rd, 2009. http://m2proxy.atlassian.com is back online. Thanks for your patience. Updated 12:38pm PST, November 23rd, 2009. Unfortunately, the server that hosts the data for http://maven.atlassian.com is offline due to a hardware failure. The Nexus proxy is online, but without http://maven.atlassian.com it will be unable to serve artifacts for builds. This will cause build breakages and problems downloading new artifacts from the maven proxies. W

Tools for stand-ups in agile and scrum teams
If you are using scrum and agile within your organization, you already know about the daily stand-up meeting and the value its brings to the team. Many organisations who have not fully adopted scrum still find the

Code Review in Agile Teams - part I
At Atlassian we believe in "agile" development (similarity to a very popular buzzword recently unintended). We strive to be as agile as possible and clearly see the benefits. Sure, there are teams who are "more agile", there are teams who are less. Almost every team applies different agile practices. That's OK as we believe in self-organisation and bottom-up evolution. Still we all believe in the

Great new tutorial on REST plugins
Jonathan Doklovic, creator of the JIRA Workflow Designer, just published a great tutorial about developing and testing REST plugins in Atlassian applications. If this is something you're working on, go check it out -- it might save you some time!

And the winners of Codegeist IV are...
We have announced the winners of our 4th annual Codegeist competition live on stage at a fantastic Atlascamp yesterday. And now it is time to reveal the results to the rest of the world. But before we announce the winners, let's take a quick look at what the contestants were coding for. This years competition had prices valued at over $54,000 USD up for grabs including $5,000 in cash, a MacBook Pro, an Amazon Kindle, free conference passes and a whole bunch of software from Atlassian and our generous sponsors. This year, in addition to the Grand Prize, we've divide