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Allie Hitchcock

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Allie Hitchcock is the Lifecycle Marketing Manager at Loom.

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  • Finding State Leaks in JUnit Tests

    A unit test is failing when run as part of a test suite. When you run the test on its own, the test passes. The…

  • Taking control of Jira

    I liked to think that Jira has a pretty excellent UI. It’s what originally attracted me to the product when I purchased it for the…

  • The Development Cascade

    Imagine one of those Russian dolls, except that each time you open a doll up, you find a larger one inside, TARDIS-style. Welcome to my…

  • Ten Across

    The scary thing is that it took me so long to work it out.

  • New Excel Macro

    With the new Excel Macro, you can now attach an Excel spreadsheet to your Confluence page and have the table data show up as page…

  • Christmas Party

    The Atlassian crew at Christmas on Sydney Harbour. What a fantastic way to see the city, shoot a few clay pigeons (lasers only, don’t worry…

  • 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 is the strange way they…

  • Confluence 2.1 Wiki: Ready for the Holidays

    Atlassian announces the release of Confluence 2.1, the enterprise wiki. Coming just 3-weeks after the major 2.0 release, Confluence 2.1 enhances the wiki’s legendary ease…

  • Confluence 2.1 Now Available

    Confluence 2.1 introduces autosave and concurrent editing warnings, integrates the atlassian-user user-management library including much-improved LDAP support, and improves the performance of the dashboard and…

  • 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 test frameworks based on JUnit).…

  • Confluence Calendar Plugin

    I’m pleased to announce the imminent release of the Confluence Calendar Plugin (RC1).

  • You want support with that?!

    I just thought this picture of Jens was too amusing to not be posted: *You want support with that?!* I’m not the best captioneer though.…

  • Watch out for falling User Objects

    Changes are afoot in the Confluence codebase for the upcoming AtlassianUser library. There are a few things that are important for you, as plugin developers,…

  • More mail in your inbox!

    I’ve set up a new mailing list for the Developer Network Subversion repository. We’re using SVN-Notify to email any commit to the repository out to…

  • The Economics of Bug-fixing

    Eric Sink has a great post about the realities of fixing bugs. Bottom line: every bug has both a benefit and a cost, and you’d…