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Jill Waldbieser

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Jill Walbieser is a freelance writer who regularly contributes to The New York Times, Cooking Light, and AARP.

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  • Exceptions are monadic™

    When I first read the internal version of Jed’s Exceptions are Bad™, I couldn’t find the fundamental differences between checked exceptions and returning sum types.…

  • Atlassian snags “Best Tools” in SDTimes 2011 Awards

    The editors at SDTimes today announced their SDTimes 100 winners for 2011, and Atlassian was named a winner in the Tools and Frameworks category. Judged…

  • 5 New Add-ons to Extend Your Confluence Intranet

    With submissions for Codegeist 2011 now closed, it’s time to take a closer look at all the amazing entries. We’ve already taken a shared 5…

  • Exceptions are Bad™

    **Exceptions should be used for exceptional circumstances!** Exceptions are to be used when bad shit happens. Not because you got passed some bad data (as…

  • Being careful with Maven’s SCM attribute

    A few days ago I tried to cut my first [Jira Studio][] release. The process is fairly straight forward, run these two commands and you’re…

  • (Case Study) Hosted development suite used for hosted microfinance platform

    Founded: 2010 HQ: Stuttgart, Germany Offices: Distributed Development Team Employees: 10 Products: Jira Studio We were quite pleased when Frederik Pfisterer of Mambu reached out…

  • If you use Exceptions for path control, dont fill in the stack trace

    This post contains general assertions about code performance and readability. Every such assertion every made in these areas can be easily disproved by a thought…

  • Java system properties for daemontools

    At Atlassian we use daemontools to manage all our server processes, both for our internal services as well as our customers hosted services. One of the…

  • What’s Next? Free AtlasBeer @ Parisian Java Conference

    What’s Next? Free Beer, That’s What’s Next! Atlassian is proud to have partnered with Zenika to host the drinking official party at the What’s Next…

  • Ultimate Wallboard Interview Series: Ultimate Wallboard Winner, Vodafone Web Team

    Last year we launched the Ultimate Wallboard Contest, Atlassian’s search to find the best information radiators and wallboards. We were amazed by the response from around the world: 87…

  • Video: Upgrade Assistant for Jira & Confluence

    Does upgrading Atlassian products have you singing the blues? Are you tired of checking plugin compatability? Is testing new versions taking way to much time?…

  • The Three Pillars of GreenHopper: Share your success

    This is the final post of a three part blog series highlighting a few lesser known but can’t-live-without features in GreenHopper, our agile planning tool…

  • Webinar Reminder: Upgrade Assistant Plugin for Jira & Confluence

    Don’t forget, tomorrow we will host a webinar with Appfire about their Upgrade Assistant for Jira and Confluence. Randall Ward, co-founder of Appfire, will walk…

  • Codegeist Submissions are Closed, Bring On the Votes

    Yesterday was the last day to submit a plugin to Codegeist, our plugin coding competition. But the contest isn’t over just yet! You still have…

  • Monitor Your Users’ Experience in Real Time with New Relic

    I wanted to take a moment to share some news that I think both Atlassian and Atlassian customers will be excited about. Today New Relic…