OpenDNS

I use Comcast as my home ISP for at least eight years. They offer fast bandwidth, but Comcast's DNS services are poor and slow. Last month I was getting tired of waiting for web site request in Firefox browser to resolve. I started to look for alternatives like AT&T DSL, but accidentally noticed OpenDNS free DNS resolution service. It took a few minutes to go through OpenDSN instructions and replace existing Comcast DNS servers with two recursive nameserver addresses 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 from OpenDNS on my Linksys WRT54GS router. I have been using OpenDNS for almost a week now and I can inform you that there are real speed improvements.

JIRA Subversion Plugin

I got the Jira/Subversion plugin up and running. This plugin checks the Subversion repository once an hour and if any commits have been made to the repository AND the developer has referenced a Jira issue, it will show up in Jira. "Subversion commits" tab is visible on Jira next to Comments and Change History. In addition to the installation steps for Jira Subversion plugin described on Atlassian web site, I added View Version Control permission for Jira users. Remaining step is to enforce developers to use reference to issues during code commit.