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Jefferson Taylor

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Jefferson is a Head of Product in Confluence Cloud at Atlassian, where he’s spearheaded and brought several experiences to market such as Automation, Mission Control, and External Collaboration. Prior to Atlassian, he led Business Strategy and Growth for Microsoft Teams as it hyper-grew >10x, leading its effort to launch Free, Trial, and Premium value.

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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…