AMPS has some advanced features for integration testing plugins. There is little documentation about these features so I intend to shed a bit of light on them here. UPDATE: I have just found http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/AMPS+Plugin+for+Maven which has been updated recently.
Ports and Context Path
Starting simple, …
I have recently been writing Plugin Licensing Manager (PLM) with James McGivern and Mark Gibson (the project was kicked off by Dan Hardiker and James Lowry). Here are some observations and thoughts on developing a plugin that is available on several different Atlassian products.
Cross product plugins are plugins that can be installed on multiple Atlassian products (Confluence, JIRA, Bamboo, refapp, Crucible and Fisheye). …
IDEA is a great IDE but it has a few annoyances. A big one for me is that if you haven't used it for a while it can be unresponsive when switching back to it. This is as much the fault of the operating system and Java as it is the fault of IDEA. On the Mac the spinning pin wheel can be seen when switching to IDEA all too often. …
Firstly I have to say that the Kodewerk course is awesome. Kirk is a really bright guy and he brings a huge amount of experience to the course which is more than willing to talk about. The course content really suited my "learning style". I like to have the theory presented in a very straight, here are all the facts, sort of way and then work on some examples to check that I understood and to reinforce what had just been presented.
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Just discovered how to have plugin resources reloaded without having to re-install a plugin. Its quite simple. First follow http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONFDEV/Disable+Velocity+Caching to disable velocity caching so any changes are show immediately and then the magic... add -Dplugin.resource.directories=resource dir to JAVA_OPTS and any resource files will be reloaded after you make a change.
Now when editing a css file, js, …
