Confluence users often ask me how the Confluence permissions model works. A reoccurring theme is the ability (or lack thereof) to selectively show or hide comments in a space on an ad-hoc basis. The current feature set of Confluence allows you to either enable or disable comments on a per space basis. For some users [...] Read more – ‘More flexible commenting in Atlassian’s Confluence’.
In light of the newly changed UK government and recent blogpost about Google Suggest, I thought I’d check the current state of the nation’s thoughts as predicted by Google UK. How? Type part of a sentence in the search form, then sit back and wait for the concerns of the people to be revealed. Read more – ‘What we really want to know about UK politics – Google Suggest reveals all’.
At work, we use Sungard HE‘s Luminis portal (v3.3) — It’s been good to us over the years, but there’s a lack of usage information regarding users’ roles and their interactions with Luminis. In the past, we’ve added Google Analytics to Luminis to track the interactions, but never managed to fully segment user roles. Until [...] Read more – ‘Meta tags are your friend part 1: Tracking roles in Sungard Luminis with Google Analytics’.
I recently started building Confluence plugins. The first one being my Google Analytics plugin for Confluence. This post outlines my “journey” into Confluence plugin development. It documents a beginner’s pitfalls when developing with the Atlassian Plugin SDK. Hopefully others can learn from, or at least laugh at my mistakes. Where I was starting from: No [...] Read more – ‘Some thoughts on developing my first Confluence plugin’.
…or how to display attachments in an unordered list. Something that bugs me in Confluence is the way that attachments are shown. The default view is a big table with just about all the information related to each attachment. This is great if you want all this detail, but I’m a simple soul with simple [...] Read more – ‘A simpler way to view attachments in Confluence’.
Here’s a quick screencast I made to show how easy it is to add custom segments – e.g. based on country/territory – to Google Analytics. There’s no audio. Sorry. Adding custom segments to Google Analytics from David Simpson on Vimeo. Read more – ‘Adding custom segments to Google Analytics’.
If you’re using the Verdana typeface in your printed documents, stop now. There is no need and it is helping destroy the planet. Verdana takes up about 19% more horizontal space than Arial. So a switch away from Verdana could reduce your paper costs by up to 19%. For further savings, switch to duplex printing [...] Read more – ‘Verdana must die for the good of the planet’.
Want to know who are the most active users on your Confluence wiki this week? This wiki markup snippet should help. It tabulates: Overall activity Page creations Page Updates Page views Page Popularity h1. This Week's Wiki User Activity Charts h2. Overall {topusers:spaces=@all|timespan=1w|period=weekly|events=create,update,view|display=icon,title,count} h2. Breakdown <code> || Page Creation || Page Updates [...] Read more – ‘Confluence Snippet: User Activity Report’.
Updated 2011-06-30: Changed to asynchronous Google Analytics tracking You’ve chosen Confluence as your Enterprise wiki and got it installed. People are using it. But how many people? You could have a look at the Global Activity page on Confluence, but this might confuse matters. You’ll get to see graphs, but what do they really mean? [...] Read more – ‘Tracking Atlassian Confluence usage with Google Analytics’.
To find out which of the UK’s national newspapers has the best readability, I chose a news story at random that was recently covered in each of the newspapers. I tested the readability of each newspaper’s article using my own online readability testing tool. Read more – ‘Discover Britain’s easiest to read online newspaper’.
I’ve just released the first version of The Readability Testing Tool. It takes either a supplied URI, or directly inputted text. Indices measured Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease Flesch Kincaid Grade Level Gunning Fog Score Coleman Liau Index Automated Readability Index. Flesch Kincaid Reading Ease is a scale of 0-100. A high score means the text [...] Read more – ‘Online Readability Test’.
This is a step by step guide for building a find nearest/store locator for free in PHP just like Postcode Anywhere. It requires PHP and a mySQL database. That’s all. You don’t need Google Maps, but it helped me populating the database, so I’ve included it for completeness. The example I’m using is UK based, [...] Read more – ‘Find nearest store page using PHP, mySQL and Google Maps’.
