The Goldfish Chronicles

Anyone recall the name of the game on the Acorn Archimedes that was Elite inspired but underwater? Started with a U possible…. driving me crazy trying to remember it

JIRA 3.13 is out and so I’ve spent an evening fixing my FilterList plugin due to a change in API. That’s happily doneand a 1.1.1 release is out there.

It’s because of a nice new feature called favourites whereby users can signify the filter they like by clicking on a star, rather than have a billion filters rammed down their throat. My filterlist plugin allows similar, but as always it’s a bit of paint on the top while the new change is at the core of things.

More importantly imo is the addition of favourites to dashboards. You can now go searching for others dashboards (if they’ve shared) and select it as a favourite so it appears in your screen.  It’s a bit iffy in that when you start managing your dashboard you get a copy of the default and not just the default as a favourite - bit of a legacy user experience I suspect and I still need to test whether you can get back on the default dashboard whilst still also hooking up to another dashboard (say a product release dashboard etc).

Atlassian also extended their personal license to the JIRA space. At last. We used JIRA to move from KY to WA and it was a happy experience (it was in a private corner of the osjava JIRA… don’t tell Mike et al). Now we can use JIRA to fix up the new house and have such components as ‘Bathroom (Our)’ and release versions of ‘2008-09-14′ - ie) a release each week. It also gives me somewhere to test my plugins, which was getting painful on the 30 day demos.

I started to put both Confluence and JIRA on the machine, but it’s OS X and that means installing a database which is a pain in the arse on OS X. So just JIRA for now on HSQL. Random request to the Atlassian guys - give me a JIRA/Confluence personal license download which integrates the two in a single Tomcat/HSQL. I’m sure it’s not hard to do myself… just lazy

Lastly - there’s an AtlasCamp in November. I’m bummed that I can’t go, but it clashes with ApacheCon and I was already signed up (which thankfully means I don’t have to choose between the old community I belong to, and the new community I like to code in).