2020 is over in few days, it is hard to believe what all happened so far this year but let us hope for a great future. For me it was all good, I worked from home all year like every other year :) so I feel fortunate that it was all smooth for me. Yes I do miss going out, drinking with friends and other things that normal people do. This year I spent lot of time in front of computer, a little more than usual. One thing I couldn't do this year was traveling to India. I had my ticket all booked and was really looking forward to my trip but couldn't. Life in UK is all good but nothing like Delhi, if you know what I mean ;) Anyways not everything is in our control, for people like me who grew up in 80s and 90s in Delhi we never saw anything of this scale in our lives but there is first time…

Atlassian changed their focus towards cloud when they announced that they will stop the server version of their applications in near future. Data Centre will continue but with this new focus majority of small to medium size Jira instances have to migrate to the Cloud. Now server version of Jira has always been the choice for organisations where there was a need to customise Jira exactly the way they want and also the wide availability of apps which makes the server version desirable. There are other benefits related to privacy etc. but in this blog I wanted to focus on one area, automation. Jira is a tool that people use to solve their problems, to work faster and efficiently. On server version ScriptRunner for Jira has been the number 1 choice for doing automation and the good news is…

There was a question on the community about negating a specific keyword using Regular Express. Use case: You want to not run the Automation rule when a release is created with name "norelease". So in this case when you created a new rule with Version created trigger then use the following regular expression. ^(?!.*norelease).*$ Enjoy!

When using Automation for Jira you may use regular expressions along with Smart Values (if needed) Use the "contain regular expression” condition to match for multiple keywords like this.^(Keyword 1|Keyword 2|Keyword 3) This will save time and makes your automation neat :)

Thanks @almworks for sending this cute little gift. Real fun to play with this #Structure just like your app ;)

It was a bit cold today. -1 is cold I guess. There was frost everywhere. All the hidden spider webs were prominently visible as well.

New day new challenge :) If you have a site on GoDaddy's shared hosting you get cPanel and phpMyAdmin but no ssh which is sad but that's shared hosting. Resetting the password on Drupal 8 is possible but not easy. Use the php script on this page that you need to upload to your root of the site. I copied the script here as well. Create a file name with hard to guess name like "mypassword.php" :) <?php use Drupal\Core\DrupalKernel; use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;   if (pathinfo(__FILE__, PATHINFO_FILENAME) == 'admin-pass-reset') {   die('Please change your file name to a random string to continue'); }   // Boot Drupal. $autoloader = require __DIR__ . '/autoload.php';   $request = Request::createFromGlobals(); $kernel = DrupalKernel::…

Let us create a post function to remove an issue from a sprint. https://youtu.be/FCmtGT1DK3c

Very colourful frosty and cold morning in #Slough today 🙂 ⛅ ❄️ #Burnham

Good thing about #Arch Linux is that in a process of customising it and making it work the way you want you end up making your own custom distro. Today let us learn how to create hotkeys to run shell scripts and quickly open any application with custom parameters. 😎https://youtu.be/sTVTm9D4rYQ