October 2022

I am not a big fan of concrete jungle but Canary Wharf is not bad, especially with all the water bodies here.

#canarywharf

What if you delete thousands of Jira issues by mistake?

#GetAnswers #Restore #Backup

The scheduler in the advanced roadmaps is quite good, it can suggest a plan for you based on the information you feed it but don't compare it with MS Project's capabilities.

#advancedroadmaps #Scheduler

Lovely fireworks display at the Slough Hindu Temple.

#diwali

Granary Square is a lovely place to spend the evening in London. You can walk by the canal, read a book or just sit here and enjoy the sunset.

#granarysquare

Yes you can buy ThinkPad x220 in 2022, for the price it is still a great machine. Let me answer some of the questions you asked me about it.

#ThinkPad #x220

I have stopped worrying about syncing my org mode agenda and Google calendar. I just use them separately.

#Emacs #GoogleCalendar

Now I know that these buttons are for safely undocking ThinkPad from the Ultrabase.

#ThinkPad #Ultrabase

Why do you want to get notified for all the changes on all the issues in your Jira instance?

#GetAnswers #Notifications

Are your trying to find a burndown chart in your project but it is missing? Make sure your are on the right type of board.

#GetAnswers #BurndownChart

If you want to use Jira for free then you can use the free plan but there is a storage limit of 2GB which you should be aware of.

#GetAnswers #Storage #Attachements

I get plenty of questions related to Jira REST API. Lot of people are interested in learning it, using it and solving their problem but they are not sure how to get started. Let me share some tips.

#JiraRESTAPI #Tips

I am speaking at ACE Maidenhead on 30th November 2022. My topic is "
Jira Automation Demystified" where I will cover various automation options on both Jira Cloud and Data Centre.

#JustTalk #ACEMaidenhead

Let me show you a simple way I use to take notes during meeting and calls. It works really nicely for me.

#Emacs #meetingnotes

I think inkjet printers are good for occasional printing and you can always refill the cartridge to save money.

#InkjetPrinters #CanonMG3600

Jira Cloud Automation rules are great but what if you want to run a rule only once per event?

#Automation #RunOnce

So I was evaluating Jira premium today, again probably 10th time and I think the option to move data from one region to another is good. I also appreciate the option to select the release track.

#GetAnswers #ReleaseTrack #DataResidency

It is getting even more difficult to properly evaluate Atlassian products. For instance Advanced Roadmaps or Plan is only available with Jira premium. Many organisations who wants to try it out cannot do that for more than a week!!

#JustTalk #atlassianevaluations

w3m is a good terminal based browser but I don't use it much. All of my web content consumption happens using a web GUI based browser.

#w3m

You can display json nicely in Emacs using json-pretty-print, it comes out of the box and works nicely.

#Emacs #jsonprettyprint

Sometimes the local variable that you set in your org file might not set properly and in that case you can press C-c C-c on one of the header lines to refresh the local setup on that file.

#Emacs #RefreshLocalSetup

It is not possible to manually define the order of the tasks that can be used by the org agenda. Let me share how I prioritise and plan the tasks.

#Emacs #Prioritisation

I run a shell script every minute to check whether my laptop is docked or not and then run some commands. It works really nicely.

#shell #dock

I started my own membership programme earlier this year with Stripe and Jira Service Management along with my Drupal site. I have 25 paying members :)

#Stripe #Memberships

It is not possible to restrict Jira users from using REST API but you can definitely define rate limits and distribute load based on REST API requests.

#GetAnswers #RateLimiting #TrafficDistribution

You can add labels to your pages in Confluence using REST API as well. Let us learn how to do that today.

#ConfluenceRESTAPI #ContentLabels

Confluence Shell Scripts

Sprints in Jira are board specific, not global. What if you want to use Jira for implementing SAFe methodologies and use it for PI Planning as well?

#GetAnswers #SAFe

I love this Jira app to export data to an Excel sheet using variety of templates. It is one of my favourite app.

#AppReview #BetterExcel

I bought a wooden height adjustable standing desk raiser which is quite good.

#standingdesk #standingdeskraiser

I an attempt to reduce my usage and dependencies on spreadsheet I am hoping to try simple CSV files but today let us learn how to consolidate multiple CSV filed into one.

#csv

I am hoping to reduce my usage of spreadsheets and I believe command line utilities can definitely be used to perform simple calculations.

#awk #datamash

It is sometimes better to Google your questions before asking on the community.

#GetAnswers #Community

You may want to send an email or notify user from a single select list field on escalations.

#GetAnswers #escalations

There are just too many products from Atlassian now. Not sure if all of them are useful.

#AtlassianUpdates #pointA

I got a badge, notebook and a nice badge from @Atlassian today.

#JustTalk #community

Do you really need to take notes in a stand up calls? Jira is more than enough. Let us talk about how you should run your stand up calls with the help of just Jira.

#JustTalk #standup

Be very careful when using team managed projects in Jira.

#JustTalk #teammanagedprojects

Are you bored doing Jira support or admin work? Well you have to think beyond the role of a Jira administrator.

#JustTalk #jiracareer

If you don't have Jira administration right it is not end of the world. You can still use Jira with limited rights and make it work for you. Let me give you some ideas.

#JustTalk

You can embed your Jira Software project's roadmap in a Confluence page but this macro doesn't work with Jira Work Management.

#GetAnswers #Roadmap

Just create two fields and you can do risk management in Jira without using an app.

#GetAnswers #RiskManagement

I am trying to get fibre connection in my house but I guess CityFibre and Vodafone engineers have some challenges.

#CityFibre #Vodafone

I have started this project where I am in a process to convert my 1000+ videos into articles.

#videos #articles

I am so glad that I started using Emacs and Org mode for producing presentations, and books using the same org file. It made my life a lot easier.

#Emacs #orgmode

Emacs tutorial is all you need.

#Emacs #tutorial

Greenwich is a really nice place. Apart from the observatory you should also visit Cutty Sark clipper. I also took the DLR to Canary Wharf.

#cuttysark #greenwich #canarywharf

I quite like Edifier 1280DB speakers because of its give inputs and they are really good looking speakers. Sound quality obviously is quite good.

#Edifier1280DB #speakers

Emacs has this super useful RSS feed reader called Newsticker which works really nicely. Give it a try.

#Emacs #newsticker

So finally I am able to generate big contracts with only few lines of code. The whole process is super simple using org mode combining both macro replacement and include option in my org files.

#Emacs #LaTeX #macroreplacement #include

I tried compass again today and this time I quite like it. Although I need to understand properly how it works and why anyone would use it.

#AtlassianUpdates #Compass

Great thing about Jira is that you can use its features creatively to structure your project. Let us take a look at one simple use case today.

#GetAnswers #JiraStructure

You can create a named buffer on the fly to store random text, code snippets and then save it to a file. It is different then using org-capture and is really useful.

#Emacs #buffer

When writing big documents you may want to use macro replacements, they are like variables which will be replaced by the global value on export. Saves lot of time and helps you in creating consistent documents.

#Emacs #LaTeX #macroreplacement

Revyz has built an amazing app for Jira Cloud that will take backup of your Jira issue and configurations. It can also restore it for you if needed. Super cool.

#Revyz #Backup #Restore

Let me show you my surveillance system built using Raspberry Pi and Logitech webcam.

#raspberrypi #ffmpeg #rtmp #hls

Using browser profile can be really useful especially when you sign in using multiple accounts or you need a work and personal profile.

#Brave #profiles

If you have to go for the Jira certifications then preparing for it will increase your chances to pass in one attempt.

#JustTalk

Create problem from Incidents and change from problem tickets in your ITSM process when using Jira Service Management.

#GetAnswers #LinkedIssues