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The Pirates (B)log Book

Diagrams and other important news from the gliffy team

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by Kat

Hello, my name is…

The people have spoken. From this day forth, our robot will be named Djedi, the little robot sent in to loyally discover hieroglyphs. Thanks to our winner, @danielabbas for submitting this name and to everyone else who participated!! Here’s a … Continue reading

by Kat

Name My Bot Contest Continued…

As most of you know, for the past week we’ve been collecting names for our nameless robot via Twitter. Due to the influx of awesome names, we’ve decided to let you pick your favorite out of our top 3. Vote … Continue reading

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

by Kat

Name My Bot Contest!!!!

Our Gliffy robot has a bunch of different costumes but no name :( We want YOU: our friends, colleagues, users, fans, and followers to participate in the Gliffy Robot Naming Contest! Starting today through October 31, we will be collecting … Continue reading

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

by Clint Dickson

Gliffy Online Update – Contextual Properties and more room to draw!

We’ve just released a major update to Gliffy Online today. This update had two major goals: allow you to draw faster, and give you more room to draw your fancy diagrams. We’ve allowed you to draw faster with our new … Continue reading

by Clint Dickson

Gliffy Online Update – Improved Account Management stability

We’ve just released an update to Gliffy Online. The major point of this release was to fix a few stability issues we were having with multi-user account management. This in turn improved the usability of the Account Manager, in that … Continue reading

by Clint Dickson

Gliffy Online Update – Quick shape connection, swimlane improvements and more!

It’s been pretty cold here in San Francisco (at least for us Californians), but it hasn’t slowed us down in getting out some hot new updates. We’ve polished up our swimlane shapes quite a bit, including one of our most … Continue reading

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

by Clint Dickson

Gliffy Online Update: Ready to work…

We’ve just released an update to Gliffy Online, coinciding with the release of Starcraft 2. This release contains numerous tweaks and fixes to our systems. We did manage to sprinkle in a few new features, too. Here are a few … Continue reading