Atlassian owns Jira and Confluence.
- Jira seems to be some sort of project management software, and Confluence seems to be a way of collaborating on documents.
I set Jira up yesterday, and Confluence today. Adding my work mates is proving to be difficult.
There are so many different terms; groups, teams, pages, spaces, Jira Software Management, Jira Work Management, Jira Service management. This is frustrating.
- By comparison, Atlassian also run Trello, which is incredible easy to use. Why is this so difficult by comparison?
It looks like you can connect it to github, which will be useful.
Although it’s a pain right now, knowledge of project management software is important to employers. I’m happy that I get the opportunity to learn it with my work mates.
A sprint is a collection of subtasks to be done by a team member in a scrum.
An epic is a length of time entered into a Gantt chart. Insie the epic are substasks. I don’t know what the difference between an epic and a sprint is.
I figured out how tot add meeting notes into Confluence, so I’m switching from using Google Docs/Drive to Confluence for this activity. This will also make the notes more accessible to my teammates.
In work, we decided to switch back to a FReMP stack, because we are not restricted to using York’s servers. So I am returning to Codecademy’s React course.
Slowly wading through the section on Component Lifecyles. I decided to start the section again because it was proving difficult last time.
I’m also picking up Codecademy’s HTML course. It’s pretty basic, but I need something to occasionally take a break from the React course.
- Only content within the <body> tag will be displayed on the screen.
- There are 6 heading tags <h1> to <h6>.
- When adding a <div> tage, it is conventional to add two indentations before it.
- Attributes are found within tags. <div id="intro"> They consist of:
  - the attribute name.
  - the attribute value.
- Paragraphs <p>, are used to display a block of plain text.
- Spans <span>, are used to display short pieces of text. Guide says they’re “used to separate small pieces of content that are on the same line as pther content.”
- The spacing between code in a HTML file doesn’t affect the positioning of elements on the browser. You can use the <br> tag to show a line break in the browser.
- Unordered list <ul> elements should not hold raw text. Within a list you use the <li> tag is used to describe an item on the list.
- Ordered lists <ol> are like <ul>, but they are numbered.
- Image tags <img> have a require attribute called src.
  - The value of the src attribute must be a URL.
  - The alt attribute within an <img> tag will display text in the event that the image doesn’t load. It also helps with SEO optimization because browsers cannot “see” and image.
- Similar to the <img> tag is the <video> tag. One difference however is that it requires a closing </video> tag.
  - It also needs width and height attributes.
  - Any text within the tags will be displayed if the video is unable to load the video.
  - Another attribute is controls. If this is included, it intstructs the browser to include basic controls.

Atlassian's Jira & Confluence. Today I Learned: Wednesday, 29 June 2022

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Niall Harrington

Niall Harrington