Clint pointed out this great post about using Gliffy Online combined with Google Docs as an agile way to use Gliffy’s Flow Chart tools for software documentation. Very slick.

Atlassian is hosting a user group meeting in Palo Alto on June 28th, where I’ll be giving a brief presentation about The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence.

The current full program schedule for the day is:

• Scott Farquhar, Co-founder and CEO, Introduction
• Ned Lerner, Sony Playstation, on Confluence
• Matt Doar, Consulting Toolsmiths, on JIRA
• Jeff Calado, Apple, on Confluence
• Joanna Thurmann, Polycom, on JIRA
• Gautham Hegde, Organic, on Confluence
• Chris Kohlhardt, Gliffy, on Gliffy and Confluence
• Break (snacks and drinks to be served)
• Birds of a Feather
• Questions and Open Discussion
• Cocktails and appetizers

RSVP here

If you attend, please come say hi! We’re always excited to meet with and chat with our customers.

On Wednesday we experienced approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes of server down time when our data center experienced a power failure. This problem has been resolved now, and we are very very sorry about the down time our customers experienced.

Our goal is to reduce down time as much as possible since we know access to your data is critical to you. A goal of ours in the upcoming months is to improve the reliability of our service. Expect to hear more about how we’re going to do this in the upcoming months.

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed user license checking error GLFY-36

Bugs fixed:

• Fixed issue where diagrams appeared ’scrambled’ in some cases.

On Monday we updated Gliffy Online with a bunch of small bug fixes and other minor improvements. Check out the list below for more information.

New features

* Improved Image rendering performance
* Ability to “lock” a shape
* Easier to make horizontal and vertical lines with straight line tool
* More entity-relationship line types
* Prettier Server symbol in network shapes for
* New Mail Server symbol
* New Mainframe symbol
* New Database server symbol
* Prettier laptop symbol
* Prettier printer symbol
* Prettier hub symbol
* New stairs symbols in floorplan shapes for pretty floor plan diagrams
* Prettier door symbols
* Vertical Rule in user interface shapes for pretty user interface diagrams
* Displaying what revision is open
* Big Collaborate Diagram button under properties
* Published diagrams render faster

Bug Fixes

* Text format changes do not force save to diagram
* Snap to grid doesn’t work when dragging shape off of a symbol library
* Uploading super thin images
* Crooked connector lines
* Connector Line goes crooked out of center point on shapes

On Friday we released an update to The Gliffy Plugin for Confluence. We strongly recommend that all current users upgrade to this release as it includes important performance and stability updates along with new features.

This update includes:

New Features

• Vastly improved diagram rendering performance
• Vastly improved plugin startup time
• Added document manager. Now you can open other diagrams in the system via thew new document manager. This will enable you to copy and paste between different documents.
• Ability to “lock” a shape
• Easier to make horizontal and vertical lines with straight line tool
• More entity-relationship line types
• Prettier Server symbol in network shapes
• New Mail Server symbol
• New Mainframe symbol
• New Database server symbol
• Prettier laptop symbol
• Prettier printer symbol
• Prettier hub symbol
• New stairs symbols in floorplan shapes
• Prettier door symbols
• Vertical Rule in user interface shapes.

Bugs fixed:

• Plugin loads MUCH faster
• Various Confluence Clustering issues resolved
• Text format changes do not force save to diagram GLFY-27
• Snap to grid doesn’t work when dragging shape off of a symbol library GLFY-24

Misc:

• Version 2 of EULA
• Cluster license verification

What’s the Gliffy Plugin for Confluence all about? Check out this two minute video for a quick overview: