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Matt Quail

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Wiki4k

At the Melbourne Cup lunch, Matthew Jensen and I were talking about the Java 4K competition, where you have to implement a game in Java where your resulting .jar file is 4KB or less. The competition harks back to the old 8bit demo scene where l33t – and mostly Eastern European – hackers created awesome […]

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Story Cards

Here at Atlassian, we like our agile methodologies. We like our pair programming. And we definitely like our story cards. Some people think story cards are old school, and that all this “agile” stuff is slight-of-hand. This video proves them … right.

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Talking Nerdy

Developers really do have a language of their own, one which can be hard for non-developers to decipher. A terse sentence fired over IM can communicate reams of information. “It’s a kludge, but put the tuple from the database in the cache.” The problem is — as this video shows — even developers themselves can […]