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Benjamin Humphrey

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I’m Benjamin Humphrey, a Designer at Atlassian in Sydney.

In the past I’ve been a co-founder of OMG! Ubuntu!, founder of The Ubuntu Manual Project, and Design Lead for delicious.com at AVOS.

I’ve also spoken about design at conferences & meetups, freelanced for a while, and competed in Startup Weekend. I’m the founder of UX Design Day.

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  • USC Confluence: A Campus-Wide Academic Wiki

    Tommi Rantanen published some sobering thoughts on the topic of Finland: not the promised land of technology on his Endless lesson blog (nice title, by…

  • Wiki Adoption Part 2: Be Firm, and Think Long Term

    This is the second in a series on wiki adoption, based on my visits with organizations in the midst of wiki adoption. Part 1 is…

  • Confluence Hosted: Invitations and BarnRaising

    This is the second in a series of instructional posts for Confluence Hosted users, to be simultaneously published on the Atlassian News Blog and the…

  • Selenium – Is it worth the pain?

    Thought I might share with you a few of my experiences with using Selenium. It is a little overdue as I have only recently been…

  • 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 and I madly working on…

  • Welcome, Cenqua

    Today we put out an announcement on Business Wire that Cenqua and Atlassian are teaming up. More technically, Atlassian has acquired Cenqua. As of today…

  • DateFormat objects and thread-safety

    One of my daily responsibilities is to look over the code that is checked into our Jira source base. I look at every commit and…

  • OSGi Plugin for Struts 2: Lessons from Confluence

    Confluence and Jira have a great plugin system at their core that allows you to install collections of actions, Spring beans (Confluence), jobs, etc. as…

  • response.sendError() vs response.setStatus()

    In the Servlet 2.4 specification, response.sendError() and response.setStatus() are treated differently. The former redirects you to the configured error page, but the latter still assumes…

  • Terence Parr on ANTLR presentation

    Last month, Atlassian hosted Sydney’s Java User Group meeting at our new offices in Sussex St. We were lucky enough to see a presentation by…

  • Confluence 2.5.5 Released

    Just a quick note to let you know Confluence 2.5.5 was just released. We recommend all our customers upgrade to this latest version as it…

  • Wiki Adoption Part 1: The Conversation is Key

    Over the past several months I’ve been meeting with Atlassian’s customers who are using Confluence in a variety of industries including technology, financial services, media,…

  • Atlassian User Group in Zurich

    If you happen to be in the Zürich area on 19 September, join in the fun! Atlassian Partner, beecom software solutions, is hosting a free…

  • Bamboo 1.2 and Acegi Security

    In Bamboo 1.2, we introduced plan level permissions as a major feature. Already with an Acegi Security framework in place, we figured it was a…

  • BIT Sponsor Breakfast

    Atlassian’s Sydney office hosted a wonderful barbeque breakfast for UNSW (Univeristy of New South Wales) BIT (Business Information Technology) students. The breakfast provided the students…