Last week I released Analytics Plugin for Confluence 1.2 on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange.
It’s been 6 months since the initial release which was only tested on Confluence 3.0. This time I’ve added a new dashboard section, full support for Confluence 3.1 & 3.2 and a pile of macro parameters as [...]
This website and one or two others I run recently experienced what appeared to be a denial-of-service attack.
Looking at the access logs, I could see several tens of thousands of requests all originating from a range of amazonaws.com IP addresses. All with the useragent “bitlybot”.
This post is a quick postmortem of what [...]
A simple Confluence user macro to hide access to the View Wiki Markup menu link…
{hide-wiki-markup}
One thing I love about Confluence is the way that you can browse other people’s pages and steal their superior layout ideas for your own wiki pages.
It’s dead easy to do. Go to the Tools drop down menu [...]
I’ve previously written a number of posts about Confluence and Google Analytics (GA), including how to set up GA on Confluence and pointers for GA reports you should consider. Lastly, I wrote the Confluence Google Analytics Plugin (CGAP) which provides space specific GA reports from within Confluence.
However, I’ve not been entirely happy because there [...]
Please fix the search UI in Safari on the iPhone.
I’ve been using the iPhone for some time now and overall, the interface is really slick. The buttons are consistently placed and this gives a really strong user experience. Everything appears to be in the obvious place.
The trouble is, I [...]
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 [...]
I’m pleased to announce the release of my first Confluence plugin — Google Analytics plugin for Confluence.
It lists Google Analytics reports for a particular Confluence space – from within that space. The current version has 10 reports and shows the first 20 results for each report.
Top Content
Depth of Visit
Internal Search
Browser and OS
Browser Version
Screen [...]
Here are the slides from a talk I gave at the European Luminis User Group in Nottingham last week.
Outlined are some thoughts behind reusable UI elements in the Luminis portal at the University of Nottingham.
Portal UI Design Patterns
We run Confluence with the (default) en_GB locale and language. For our purposes, some of the boilerplate text needs changing. This post describes how to solve this problem with a partial British English language pack that overrides only part of the Confluence interface text.
Having installed Google Analytics on Confluence, you need to ensure that you’re not lost in a world of pretty metrics.
Make sure that your new analytics toy produces something solid and actionable. Anything less is just a shiny curiosity that your organisation will soon fail to engage with.
This article presents 4 useful tips [...]