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Interview with Atlassian’s Ben Naftzger
Here’s a one-minute interview of Ben Naftzger, Sales Director here, on Atlassian’s business model (great job, Ben!). It was made in conjunction with the Web 2.0 in Australia event, where Atlassian was showcased as one of the leading examples of Web 2.0 in Australia. The video was produced by One Minute World.
OpenID – is it even useful?
There has been lots of speculation regrading whether OpenID is actually useful and I’ve often asked myself what can OpenID actually do for a company. If you’re interested in what OpenID can do for SSO/trust/webapps, then have a read. If you have no idea what OpenID is and want a quick overview, head over to […]
Enterprise 2.0: Monkeys or Memes?
Word on the street is that Jeffrey and Stewart’s Enterprise 2.0 presentation today was well-attended and well-received. Here’s one writeup that goes into specifics, and it starts out like this: Jeffrey Walker and Stewart Mader of Atlassian spoke next on “Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?” (great title, making reference to the infinite monkey theorem), which […]
Newsweek Bulletin: IT & Communications
When NASA needed a project collaboration and information-sharing system for its Kennedy Space Center, it turned to Atlassian’s Confluence technology. So did Deutsche Bank. And Boeing, and BMW, and hundreds of the world’s biggest corporations. Right now, there’s no brighter shooting star in Australian IT than Sydney-based Atlassian. A really nice article here about Atlassian […]
Clustering Cisco routers with VRRP and SLAs
As part of the move our new Sydney office we purchased a duplicate of our main router, a Cisco 1841. This was necessary as we wanted to have the network fully installed and tested before the move started in order to avoid any nasty surprises. However once the dust had settled we were left with […]
ANTLR lecture at Atlassian in Sydney this evening
Terence Parr is presenting ANTLR this evening Wednesday 20 June at our new office here in Sydney: 173-185 Sussex Street Sydney, NSW, 2000 Australia Google Map reference is http://tinyurl.com/yu9hh8 The time is 6:00pm for beer and pizza, 6:30 start. The Sydney Java Users Group (SJUG) has organised this lecture: “Our speaker is Terence Parr, a […]
And The Winners of Codegeist II Are…
Jonathan blogged about all the Codegeist II winners here, here, here and here. But, if you’re looking for a quick rundown, see the list of all the winners just below, in the Codegeist press release. First, however, a big thank you to everyone who participated this year! All the Codegeist plugins submitted were pragmatic — […]
Wall Street Journal Wiki Articles
The Wall Street Journal has published two articles about enterprise wikis, both of which mention Atlassian customers and their use of wikis for collaboration and knowledge management: Mr. Yolton’s group put the most relevant questions and answers on a wiki and started encouraging people in the so-called SAP community — employees, software developers, customers and […]
New Atlassian Home Page
How do you like the new look of our home page? In my experience, home page redesigns are often very contentious processes. That said, this one was (mostly) a snap. We started out with several “lighter” redesigns, then scrapped those and went for something a little more radical. You can’t please everyone all the time, […]
Architecture Diagrams
In an effort to answer a question last week, support engineer Jeremy knocked up this quick diagram of the Jira architecture to aid in his explanation. (N.B.: The diagram was later enhanced by some helpful developers.) Later, someone asked a Charles a question about the Confluence architecture. He also answered with a helpful diagram.
Web Content 2007, Enterprise 2.0 conference, Atlassian Boston User Conference
I’ll be in Chicago on Monday, presenting at Web Content 2007, then on to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference where I’ll be presenting “Collective Intelligence: Monkeys or Memes?” with Jeffrey Walker, Atlassian’s President. On Thursday, June 21st, Atlassian is hosting a User Conference at MIT. If you’re in the area, I hope to see […]
Atlassian User Group Conferences in Boston and San Francisco Area
In case you haven’t heard the news — Atlassian is hosting two User Group events this month! If you’re in the Boston or San Francisco area, come network and socialize with peers, developers and other folks with shared interests, including members of the Atlassian team. These are your user conferences. Whilst some mates from Atlassian […]
Somebody Didn't Want Me To Func Test This
For much of this week I have been taken from my bug fixing work to drag a functional test kicking and screaming across the fine line that separates working from broken. This test was to ensure that Jira’s “Johnson” servlet filter will correctly stop incoming requests from waking up the plugin system or the micro […]
Bamboo Notifications Screen
On the Jira team we have an old tradition to let the Confluence team tackle new things and steal their ideas if they end up working out. We’ve recently had a couple of problems when developers would keep committing code if the builds are broken on Bamboo. We generally aim to stop all commits until […]
Why Wiki is more productive than BlackBerry
Andrew McAfee wrote recently that his MBA students raised a concern about whether, “people who use the new tools heavily — who post frequently to an internal blog, edit the corporate wiki a lot, or trade heavily in the internal prediction market — will be perceived as not spending enough time on their ‘real’ jobs.” […]