Author Archives: Chris Kohlhardt

April 20, 2012 by Chris Kohlhardt

Reducing the risk of moving to HTML5

In case you didn’t see, I recently penned a guest blog post on the Atlassian developer blog about mitigating the risks of migrating to HTML5 away from Flash. There are many risk factors related to re-writing software, and normally we’d … Continue reading →

October 26, 2011 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy 4 conveniently available in Atlassian’s new OnDemand service

As if you didn’t already have enough reasons to try out the new Atlassian OnDemand, we’ll give you one more: The vastly improved Gliffy Confluence Plugin 4 is immediately available to install in your OnDemand Confluence environment. You’ll also have … Continue reading →

June 6, 2011 by Chris Kohlhardt

The New Gliffy Confluence and JIRA Plugins have features that save you time and reduce frustration

We are super happy to announce some major improvements to version 3.5 of the Gliffy Confluence Plugin and Gliffy JIRA Plugin. Check out the quick demo videos of each of these new features below. Floating Properties Panel With this release, … Continue reading →

June 2, 2011 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy.com website updated: Now with more robots

Last night we pushed out a major update to our website. We’ve been working on this update for quite some time, so we’re super excited to get this out there. We’d love to hear about any feedback you might have … Continue reading →

October 7, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

AtlasCamp 2010

Atlassian is hosting their annual developer event AtlasCamp, which starts on Monday in Half Moon Bay. The Gliffy team will be in attendance so that we can learn about the latest goings ons in the Atlassian ecosystem, and learn more … Continue reading →

August 30, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy.com is now hosted carbon neutrally!

This is the first part in a series of blog posts about how Gliffy is pushing to be environmentally sustainable wherever we can. The following is a guest post from Matthew E. Porter who is the CEO of Contegix, our … Continue reading →

August 26, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

Looking for super awesome Javascript / HTML5 programers

Gliffy is looking for an awesome client side software developer who is interested in working on our highly interactive web based diagram editor with some other very smart and creative developers. We’re a bootstrapped, profitable software company with a focus … Continue reading →

August 17, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy August 2010 Newsletter

The Gliffy August 2010 Newsletter it out! It’s been a big month for us with Gliffy’s successful leap into the Google App Marketplace. We’re not resting on our laurels, though. This month our newsletter highlights some funny templates we’ve added … Continue reading →

July 13, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy added to the Google Apps Marketplace

Background Back in 2005 when Clint, myself, and the other founders of Gliffy were contemplating what sort of product we wanted to build for our little startup, we generally focused on one central idea. We believed that most desktop software … Continue reading →

June 21, 2010 by Chris Kohlhardt

Gliffy.com service outage update

Starting at approximately 2:20PM PDT on Sunday June 20th, the Gliffy.com website came under a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. A DDoS attack is when the bad guys use many many hacked computers to send arbitrary requests at our … Continue reading →