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There are more than 2 million businesses worldwide using Google Apps, and roughly 3,000 new ones sign-up for Google Apps each day. Atlassian is in the process of migrating from Zimbra to Google Apps, which many of us are eagerly awaiting, especially since most have been forwarding their mail from Zimbra to Google Mail anyway. Google Apps is a juggernaut, and it's no wonder Google is proud of the response it continues to receive.

The analog to Google Apps at Atlassian is JIRA Studio, our hosted software development suite. JIRA Studio (Studio for short) is our fastest growing product, which shouldn't be a surprise. In a single, hosted, just-turn-it-on-and-it-works product, Studio combines source control (Subversion), issue tracking (JIRA), agile planning (GreenHopper), enterprise wiki (Confluence), code browsing (FishEye), code reviews (Crucible) and continuous integration (Bamboo). All of that, beautifully integrated, and hosted as a single service. As a customer, you don't worry about managing or upgrading it - we take care of all that. Studio helps teams build great software, by giving them the tools they need to manage code and development projects, without the hassle of managing those tools.

So when Google decided to relaunch the Google Apps marketplace, it's no surprise they thought of Studio. For developers inside companies using Google Apps, Studio is the perfect complement. And now it's a perfectly integrated complement.

JIRA Studio for Google Apps
As of today, JIRA Studio is available from the Google Apps Marketplace. If you're a Google Apps customer, you can add Studio directly to your domain, straight from the marketplace. This means you'll logon to Studio using your Google username and password. If you're already logged in to Google Apps, JIRA Studio appears as a menu item at the top of any Google application, and you'll be signed in automatically to Studio when you select it.

But that's not all. We've also added some nifty features to Studio that integrate Google Apps and Studio together. The features are described in better detail here and include:

• attaching Google Docs to issue: any docs (spreadsheets, presentations, documents) you manage in Google Docs can be attached to JIRA issues in Studio. And a single click on the doc from Studio takes you back to Google Docs to edit them, automatically logged-on.
• embedding Google Docs and lists of documents in the wiki: the wiki's macro browser (a visual page editor for adding components) has a few new Google page components that let you embed individual documents, or whole lists of documents, inside a wiki page.


• JIRA Studio Activity Bar: we've added a single launch bar that spans the bottom of every page in Studio. The Activity Bar lets users see the important updates from the tools they use most across both systems (unread message from Gmail, meetings from Google Calendar, recent issue from JIRA, outstanding code reviews, etc.), and integrated chat from Google Talk, so you can IM directly with your teams from any page.


• gadgets in Gmail: Studio, like many of our products, supports OpenSocial, and OpenSocial gadgets from Studio can be added to Google applications, like Gmail, giving some users that live in email a quick snapshot of open issues or project activity in the tool they use most.

We're excited about the combination, and the opportunity this presents Studio. We hope that many of those companies "Going Google" will also "Go Studio." Learn more at http://www.atlassian.com/google, or if you want to dive right into what Studio offers, check out http://www.atlassian.com/studio.

Oh, and here's a little video we put together to explain the combination at a high level. Hope you enjoy it:

SJUG:Michael Neale on RESTeasy, Matt Quail on Objectify
When: 6:00pm for 6:30 start, Thursday, 11th March 2010.

Where: Atlassian HQ, 173-185 Sussex St

Who: Michael Neale will be presenting first about 'RESTful web services in java (jax-rs/RESTEasy)'. Michael works for Red Hat, in the JBoss division, on the Drools project. He lives in the Blue Mountains, and has been working with java on and off since 2001.
The second presentation will given by Matt Quail on 'Objectify: The simplest possible typed abstraction to the Google App Engine datastore'. Matt is our lead architect of the FishEye and Crucible products. In his spare time he has recently become a committer on the Objectify project.

Cost: free (we're sponsoring beer and pizza on the night, as usual)

RSVP: before Thursday night

Agile Australia call for speakers Atlassian is pleased to be sponsoring Agile Australia again this year. This year's Agile Australia conference is to be held in Melbourne in September with the theme "Delivering business value with Agile!".

There is currently a call out for speakers for both Speaking spots and Lighting Presenters (submissions close end of April).
So if you're interested in Agile, make sure you throw your hat in the ring under one of these umbrellas:

• Business Value
• Culture, Leadership, People
• Agile Organisation, Process and practice
• Innovation and Emerging Ideas

by downloading, or submitting an application from www.agileaustralia.com.

Entire product portfolio now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC 
Waltham, MA, March 10, 2010 - Telerik, a leading vendor of development tools and user interface components for .NET, announced today their Q1 2010 release, consisting of a complete update of the Telerik .NET developer toolbox and the official release of Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC and JustCode. This release is further marked by significant performance innovations in the company's Silverlight and WPF UI controls, full support across all products for Visual Studio 2010 RC, as well as a new productivity-enhancing visual designer for OpenAccess ORM. 

"Telerik's Q1 2010 release is a result of our commitment to pursue product excellence, in richness, performance, and productivity", said Vassil Terziev, Telerik CEO. "Our steadfast focus on customers continues to translate into timely delivery of leading-edge updates across the entire Telerik product portfolio that push .NET developer productivity to new heights."

Q1 2010 delivers the official releases of two products introduced by Telerik as betas in late 2009. The Telerik Extensions for ASP.NET MVC suite includes four new components, designed to enable high-performance productivity for building MVC UI. A new commercial license for the Extensions is also available in Q1, complementing the existing open source option. Telerik's code analysis and refactoring tool, JustCode, also officially released in Q1, offers full support for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, additional refactorings, and significant performance optimizations. 

The Q1 2010 Telerik XAML controls include serious performance optimizations, making them the highest performing, full-featured UI components on the market. Developers and end-users now benefit from highly responsive data-centric controls, capable of working with millions of data items. 

Telerik continues to raise the bar for data access productivity in Q1 2010 with the introduction of the new Visual Designer for OpenAccess ORM. It gives developers the ability to visually create a domain model and have a working data-driven project in minutes. With the visual designer, OpenAccess combines the simplicity of visual ORM configuration with the Enterprise-grade power of the OpenAccess ORM data engine. Also added in Q1 2010 is support for embedded SQL database engine, VistaDB. 

The new release brings a new declarative data source engine to Telerik Reporting. The new data engine allows full control over data management, and delivers significant gains in report rendering performance and memory consumption. The new engine comes with support for data source parameters, stored procedures, calculated fields, and user-defined aggregates.

Also available in this release is a new version of Telerik's Visual Style Builder for the RadControls for WinForms. The tool provides a quick and codeless way for developers to create and customize control skins without the need to know RadControls essentials. The new tool delivers unprecedented productivity for styling WinForms UI.

Furthermore, the RadControls for ASP.NET AJAX suite adds two new controls to the suite in Q1 2010, RadFilter and RadAsyncUpload, and comes with full support for Visual Studio 2010 RC and .NET 4.0 RC. This also includes out-of-the-box Intellisense for RadControl client-scripts, making developers more productive when they choose to write JavaScript code. 

PricingPricing of the Telerik Premium Collection for .NET, including all suites, Reporting, OpenAccess ORM, JustCode and Extensions for ASP.NET MVC, is $1,299 per developer seat. The license comes with priority support, guaranteeing 24-hour response time, as well as full C# source code, redistribution rights, and free updates to the latest products for one year.

Atlassian hosted a launch party for most of the Startup Bus crew last night. Over 40 people, many just meeting for the first time, gathered to get their survival kits*, eat, drink and talk about the next 48 hours on the road. We're happy to sponsor the Bus and we're keeping an eye on it as it makes its way to SXSW.

Now here's the fun part. Not only can you follow their Twitter stream here or become a fan on Facebook, you can also track their code commits. Every time they make a code commit via JIRA Studio, it's geotagged and displayed on an interactive Google Map on their website. Nice!

The party pics

* Survival kit included water, granola bar, an apple, a Confluence t-shirt, product brochure, bottle opener, beer koozie, water and Tic Tac breath mints.

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We're happy to let you know that we have launched two new exciting betas for our IDE connectors.

Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.0-BETA

We have also launched the first beta of our brand new Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio. The Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio is the latest addition to the Atlassian IDE connectors, which also includes the Atlassian Connector for IntelliJ IDEA.

Release 1.0 of Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio will allow you to integrate JIRA issue tracker and Bamboo continuous integration server into your Visual Studio environment. Some features include:

• Search for JIRA issues quickly from within Visual Studio, or load up a list of issues from one of your favourite filters.
• View your issues in Visual Studio and get all the details you need without having to leave your IDE.
• Directly comment on your issues, log work against the issue, or transition your issue in its workflow.


• Monitor your Bamboo builds in Visual Studio.

For more details of the Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio 1.0-BETA, please check out our release notes

Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0-BETA

The Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0 introduces numerous new features, including:

• a new review perspective for working on reviews


• creating new reviews from any folder, file, or code selection


• adding files to open reviews
• for post-commit reviews, we've added support for all SCMs which are supported in Crucible, including Perforce, GIT, and ClearCase.


• handy pre-defined issue filters


• restriction of comment visibility for issue comments.

In addition, Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0 marks the first release where the JIRA Mylyn features will be hosted by Atlassian. Previously, the JIRA Mylyn Connector was hosted by the Eclipse Mylyn project. The migration is driven by Atlassian's commitment to further enhance the connector. The entire Atlassian Connector for Eclipse project will continue to be open source and distributed under the EPL.

For more details about the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse 2.0-BETA, please check out our release notes

What Next?

We want your help to make these connectors even better! If you are using Eclipse or Visual Studio, please try out these connectors, and share your feedback by:

• Posting to our forums, at: http://forums.atlassian.com/forum.jspa?forumID=124
• Creating issues directly under the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse or Atlassian Connector for Visual Studio projects at studio.atlassian.com.

BEDFORD, Mass., Mar 08, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a leading software provider that enables enterprises to be operationally responsive, announced the successful completion of its annual industry and financial analyst conference. This was the 12th consecutive conference that Progress Software has held in Boston. More than 60 industry and financial analysts attended the conference with many 'tweeting' and 'blogging' on various topics during the day. John Stewart, vice president of corporate marketing at Progress Software, commented that "this conference continues to be a good platform for the company to provide analysts who follow Progress with the ...

The National Hockey League (NHL) is widely considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world. It was recently brought to my attention that they are happily using our tools, and they wouldn't mind chatting about how they use them.

I spoke with Andrus Adamchik based out of the NHL's New York headquarters. Andrus is in the Application Development department and has been at the NHL for the better part of a decade. The biggest take-away from the interview is that anyone who logs into the www.nhl.com is passed through Crowd, Atlassian's single sign-on (SSO) and identity management tool.

NHL at a glance

• Industry: Professional Sports
• Headquarters: NYC, USA
• Founded: 1917
• Products used: JIRA, Confluence, Crowd

The interview How long have you been at the NHL?
Since 2002, working permanently since 2006.

What is your role?
Consultant, Developer, and Architect. I helped design a more current and modern website. I have been one of the lead developers since 2006.

What department are you in?
Application Development.

What Atlassian products are you currently using?
JIRA, Confluence and Crowd.

How did the products make their way into the NHL?
I recommended them to the NHL. When we started a project in 2006, when we needed bug tracking software, it was a no brainer to use JIRA because I was familiar with it from doing various open source projects, including Apache Cayenne. Atlassian made a smart move giving free licenses to Open Source developers.

JIRA Questions Were you using an issue tracker before JIRA?
I used various issue trackers in other places, but when we needed one at the NHL, JIRA was the Number 1 candidate.

How are you using JIRA?
Internal bug tracking, but it has now spread around the organisation. A few hundered people are using it.

Do the different departments have their own projects?
Yes, exactly. Each development department or group has its own project. For example, we have one for sys admin and one for website development and so on. So, we have 5 projects right now.

What advice would you give another company considering using JIRA?
That it is one of the best tools on the market right now. We have tried a few other things. Maybe it is my past experience with JIRA, and I am biased, but it is really the best. We haven't even got into the customizations or plugins, we are just using the basic installation.

Just out of the box?
Yes. The only customization we have made is some workflow items. We organize our development and build process around JIRA workflow.

Confluence Questions How are you using Confluence?
We started using it because we needed an enterprise wiki. JIRA was working well for us, so we went for another Atlassian product. It has more users than JIRA. JIRA is used more by testers and developers, while Confluence is used by more business people to create requirements to create the definitions of new products. Of course, our development group uses it a lot for software design and getting documentation to end users.

Can you comment on how Confluence spread in the company?
It was an organic growth. Some would send other people links to documents, and they would open it and start playing around. It spread organically, no one was forced to use it.

Prior to Confluence, was there another product in place?
It was the first wiki we brought in.

Have you guys done any customizations to Confluence?
Not yet. We just use it as is.

Crowd Questions Tell me about Crowd.
Crowd serves the live NHL.com website, and has been in production for a year and a half. This is where we have done lots of custom development, and we hope we can continue it on to future editions. Upgrading to a current version will be a real test for Crowd's enterprise capabilities.

Do you know how many people are using Crowd on your site?
I can't give you the exact number, but it is anyone on the nhl.com website that logs in in the upper right hand corner of our site. All the social networking that we do, forums, and premium video packages; it all goes through Crowd. It is a LOT of people.

Do you use it for single sign-on between JIRA and Confluence?
Originally, we wanted to use Crowd for single sign-on, but because JIRA and Confluence evolved independently, we decided it was too much trouble to reconcile the accounts, we just left it as is.

Are there any other non-Atlassian tools that you integrate with?
Crowd integrates with our main application stack. We place a number of internal business frameworks inside the custom Crowd connectors.

Are people using our tools in ways you haven't expected?
Yes. When use started to spread out of our development group, many people wanted to have their own custom workflows. So, it was good the license we had supported custom workflows. I guess some other people wanted to tweak this and that, but mostly it was worklfow customizations.

Any final comments?
We have been relying on Atlassian tools for a couple of years and like Atlassian products.

Thanks Andrus!

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