December 2022

Have your tried smart search on Jira Cloud. Although it can be improved but it seems good to me, especially for new Jira users it can be beneficial to get them started with the search.

#JiraCloud #SmartSearch

Did you start using Jira but it is not working well for you? Make sure your project managers are trained.

#JiraBestPractices #training

Let me share top ten features of emacs and org mode that I use quite a lot.

#Emacs #TopTenFeatures

Finally I was able to setup Syncthing to run headless on my Raspberry Pi.

#Syncthing #Raspberrypi

You can create a custom field of type Single and Multiple Group Picker and do lot of wonderful things with it.

#JiraCloud #GroupPickerField

I am trying to setup a home server or always on computer which I will use to sync my files with all my devices.

#Syncthing #Raspberrypi

There is a feature called Comment Reactions in Jira for comments, although you can't report on it but it is still a good feature. Are you using it?

#JiraCloud #CommentReactions

I found out about the Include feature in Org Mode quite late but I am very happy with it. My life is much better now :)

#Emacs #Include

If you want to track testing activities within a sprint then make sure they are added directly under a sprint.

#GetAnswers #TestCases

If you want to have dark theme in kdenlive then you can install breeze, it looks really good.

#kdenlive #breeze

As promised earlier I will be doing the first webinar on 14th January 2023. The topic would be ITSM.

#Sparxsys #Webinar #ITSM

sxiv is a wonderful utility to view images but you can also use its key-handler capability to do things on those images as well.

#sxiv #keyhandler

Issue links in Jira are bidirectional and you need to learn about it.

#GetAnswers #IssueLinks

My list of favourite apps is still the same although there are plenty of apps on the marketplace.

#JustTalk #AtlassianMarketplace

I have been publishing a blog using org mode for 3 years now and I am very happy.

#Emacs #publishing

There is a nice utility called tlp that will help you know more about your battery in just one go. I started using it and I thought I will share it will all of you as well.

#tlp #battery

Tempo Planner could be a really option if you want to plan availability of your resources.

#GetAnswers #CapacityManagement

xev is a nice utility that will tell you what keys you are pressing on your computer so you can configure your operating system to do things quickly.

#xev #sxhkd

If you have a board with multiple projects then manage sprints permissions can be a bit tricky.

#GetAnswers #ManageSprints

My ThinkPad T14 is ready to use, although the brightness control didn't work first time but I managed to fix it easily.

#ThinkPad #T14

I promise I will do at least one webinar every month in 2023.

#justtalk #Webinar

You can create multiple free Jira instances I think.

#justtalk #FreeJira

Let us talk about Jira Work Management Limitations and few other things.

#JustTalk #jwm

I ended up buying ThinkPad T14 for only £330 🙂

#ThinkPad #T14

Canary Wharf looks beautiful with Christmas decorations and snow.

#canarywharf #christmas

Starting your own community is actually not that difficult.

#JustTalk #ownyourdata

You can search for issues with remote links using ScriptRunner for Jira.

#ScriptRunner #RemoteLinks

Org reveal presentations will only have one column layout but you can change it by insert a custom class and use little bit of CSS.

#Emacs #twocolumnlayout

So I was trying to export to PDF but my code was going out of PDF width, fortunately there is an easy way to fix it.

#Emacs #LaTeX #WrapCode

You cannot use one license on multiple instances.

#GetAnswers #License

Keep making YouTube videos. You never know someone somewhere would find your videos helpful.

#JustTalk #MorningWalk

It snowed last night ⛄

#Snowfall #Burnham

Do you have one shared product for various customers? Let share how you can easily manage it using Jira.

#GetAnswers #SharedProduct

ThinkPad x390 is not a bad laptop. Let me show you.

#ThinkPad #x390

I think ThinkPad x270 or x390 could be worthy successors to ThinkPad x220.

#x270 #x220 #x390

Using Behaviours you can easily prefill a text field with a template to help your users.

#ScriptRunner #Template

I started building a Jira Cloud app called Stay on top and I need your feedback to improve it.

#Sparxsys #stayontop

Download Stay on top

You can convert Text Field to a Select List using Behaviours.

#ScriptRunner #TextField

I attend High Velocity ITSM London and it was awesome experience. Last session from will.i.am was amazing.
@atlassian

Resizing your images in an HTML file that you generate using Org Mode is very easy.

#Emacs #resizeimage

I thought O2 arena is just a stadium but I was wrong.

#O2Arena

I bought colour changing golden FIFA beer cup from Budweiser but it doesn't really change colour but it's ok.

#FIFA #BeerCup

It is possible to trigger a rule from another rule. This could be useful but sometimes it is better to use scheduled trigger based on a JQL.

#Automation #DelayExecution

Today I wanted to split a big PDF file and had to extract few pages. I did this using a very nice utility called pdfjam.

#pdfjam #splitpdf

Not only you can create filters using REST API but you can set filter columns. It is really cool.

#JiraRESTAPI #FilterColumns

Jira automation rules can be used to assign issues to users automatically. You can use balanced load, random or round robin.

#Automation #AutoAssign

You should look at building apps for other marketplaces. It could be a good option to add another income source.

#BuildApps #CareerAdvice