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Mike Cannon-Brookes

Mike Cannon-Brookes is CEO and Co-founder of Atlassian. Outside the company, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture and energy. Mike has been recognised as a leading entrepreneur by Ernst & Young, the Australian Financial Review, Forbes and the World Economic Forum. A passionate clean energy evangelist, he continues to be an investor in climate change philanthropy and sustainable solutions.

The future depends on more software developers

Software is changing the world – from medicine and education to fashion and transportation – and it’s impacting the way...

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Meet Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family

Please give a warm welcome to Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family! I’m thrilled to announce that Atlassian has...

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You did it! Atlassian raises $1 million for Room to Read

This post goes out as a massive thank you to all of our Starter teams. If you’re one of our...

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The Atlassian Adventure Continues…

So we made a little announcement today. Characteristically for Atlassian, we do nothing by halves. If you missed the news,...

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Oh man, what a day! An update on our security breach

Background Around 9pm U.S. PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach...

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Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment

I’m happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public “20% time” trial at Atlassian. If you’ve ever wondered how...

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Jira Studio: Stream of Development Consciousness

I suspect it comes as no surprise to any developer if I say that “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com has become extremely popular (not...

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Cutlassian 2007

This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of...

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Aeron, Cube or Mac Pro?

We’re known for providing Aeron’s to all employees (not just developers), but someone snapped this photo of Pete, Brendan, Ben...

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ShipIt V – Chatrooms in Confluence

For my ShipIt V project, the first challenge was simply committing myself to a single idea. Eventually (after a few...

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Magic Millions

I know it’s a dubious claim (LOC – bah!), but sometime in the last month our public SVN repository cruised...

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Code names, naming schemes and developer humour

The planning process for Confluence 2.2 reminded me that one of the quirky things I love about all technology companies...

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Reducing JUnit memory usage

A little tip for those writing any form of “JUnit”:http://www.junit.org tests (this includes functional tests with JWebUnit or any derivative...

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Jira 2.1 progress update

Jira 2.1 is nearing completion, we’re hoping to have a beta out early next week. This announcement is just to...

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Chris Winters reviews Jira

Chris Winters has written a “good review of his experiences”:http://www.cwinters.com/News/show/?news_id=928 using Jira on his “weblog”:http://www.cwinters.com/ : _So after submitting an...

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