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Blake Thorne

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Blake Thorne is a Product Marketing Manager. Before joining Atlassian, he was the first marketing hire at two early-stage startups. He formerly worked as a journalist.

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  • Migration to JPA: experts wanted

    In the Confluence team, we’re investigating an upgrade of our data access layer of Hibernate 2 with Spring 1.1 to a shiny new OpenJPA and…

  • Java User Group (JUG) Sponsorships

    Many companies have sponsorships for their respective user groups. In addition to Atlassian User Group sponsorship, we also support Java User Groups. Over the past…

  • From manual to automatic

    When Crowd first became an Atlassian product it was built using a bunch of ant scripts and lived in CVS, this is quite common for…

  • Calling all social change projects: Present at NetSquared

    If you’re working on an innovative project that uses social media technology to advance social change, then this is for you: In May 2007, 350…

  • ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer: Using patterns to grow wiki adoption

    I just finished my guest blogging stint for ZDNet Web 2.0 Explorer with a post about how to encourage wiki adoption in your organization. The…

  • Confluence and Jira Win Jolt Awards

    Great night yesterday at the SD West tradeshow. After a nice introductory presentation from Craig Newmark, awards were handed out at the 17th annual Jolt…

  • T-shirts 2.0

    Say ‘hello’ to the new and improved Atlassian t-shirts. They’re guaranteed to be the best way to turn heads and get attention in your office!…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #6 – Think globally

    This is the sixth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Wiki goes to Oxford (Englsh Dictionary that is)

    CNET reports: This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary…

  • Starting an Atlassian User Group

    Last August, one of our partners, IntelliObjects, suggested the idea of holding and sponsoring a user group. Sounded like a good idea to us. We…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #5 – Think hybrid

    This is the fifth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Lessons from Firefox: #4 – Nurture renegades

    This is the fourth in a seven-part series based on The Mozilla School of Management in which I’m applying Mozilla’s principles to wiki collaboration (parts…

  • Confluence adoption in the trenches

    Simon posts a terrific article about driving Confluence adoption in his consulting firm. There are some really good tips in here about the techniques he’s…

  • Confluence Portlets for Oracle Webcenter

    I’ve been doing a bunch of portlet development recently. Most recently, I’ve focused on portlets that can work in an Oracle portal environment.

  • Poll: What’s the Best Polling Software

    Thanks to my post yesterday, I now know what the worst polling software is. Nothing quite like the smell of napalm in the morning… except…