Atlassian Stash – new product, first experience

Stash Logo
On may 1st 2012, Atlassian released a new product called Stash. Stash is a Git repository manager. People that know Atlassian would say “Hey, isn’t it the same as FishEye?”. Well no, it’s not the same. FishEye is for looking at ALL of your source code, in any source repository. Stash is a repository manager for Git only. So how is it different then?

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Techday Play framework

We’re holding another one of our monthly “Techday” events this week. We organize techdays because we like to stay sharp and have some fun in the process (Check out our previous blog post about why we do techdays).

This month’s techday is on thursday april 26th in our Avisi offices in Arnhem. This time about the Play framework. Want to join the fun?

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Remote Apps for Atlassian OnDemand

Since Atlassian released their OnDemand platform, customers have been asking for more plugins to be made available there. Until now, only 7 plugins are offered on the new platform.

The current approach of in-VM plugins incurs a very high cost in development, QA, and support time. This is due to tight coupling and increased security and stability risks.

The Atlassian Remote Apps project aims to bring the benefit of third-party extensibility to OnDemand by dramatically lowering the costs and risks related to third-party code.

We investigated the possibilities to setup a remote app for enabling Numbered Headings for OnDemand. Here are our findings…

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Come have breakfast, with our Atlassian Experts!

Want a smarter, quicker and more efficient organization?
Let our Experts introduce you to the Atlassian software suite.

We’re holding a free breakfast on April 26th, 9 to 10 AM.

Register on our Meetup page.

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Exploring Kotlin, writing a simple spell checker

In my last blog I talked about exploring Kotlin, a JVM language in development by JetBrains. In this blog I’ll walk through a larger piece of Kotlin code.

Spell checker
The program we’re talking about is a simple spell checker. It reads a dictionary of words from a file (/usr/share/dict/words) into a set. Then it reads a sentence from stdin and checks if every word is in the dictionary. Finally it informs the user whether or not the sentence is spelled correctly, i.e. every word is known in the dictionary.

The spell checker is available on my GitHub. Take a moment to study the Java version, we’ll discuss the Kotlin version next. Continue reading

Confluence 4.2 makes collaboration easier than ever

Confluence 4.2 was released earlier today and it promises to make collaboration even better. It’s easier to create rich content, easier to share it and easier to discover it.

Apart from the previously announced features (such as better sharing and easy user invites), it’s got some stuff we really really like

  • Content pages, blogs and comments just got a lot more Like-able
  • No more loading with the new inline Quick Comments
  • See what’s trending in Confluence with the Popular Content Stream
  • Discover the most viewed, commented and liked content in a Weekly Summary
  • Creating good looking, clean pages is a breeze with Page Layouts

Have a look at the official release page for more info.