The future depends on more software developers
Software is changing the world – from medicine and education to fashion and transportation – and it’s impacting the way we work and how we live. The possibilities are limited only by the number of people with the ambition, great ideas, and opportunities to bring their ideas to life. Tech jobs are growing three times […]
Meet Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family
Please give a warm welcome to Hipchat, the newest member of the Atlassian family! I’m thrilled to announce that Atlassian has acquired Hipchat — a transformative hosted group chat service that helps teams, or entire companies, collaborate in real-time. Hipchat’s amazing team, including all three co-founders — Pete, Garret and Chris — will be moving into our […]
You did it! Atlassian raises $1 million for Room to Read
This post goes out as a massive thank you to all of our Starter teams. If you’re one of our Starter customers, these girls get to go to school because of you. These girls. The ones in the photo. That is a truly amazing, wonderful, incredible thing. Thank you. When Scott and I started Atlassian, […]
The Atlassian Adventure Continues…
So we made a little announcement today. Characteristically for Atlassian, we do nothing by halves. If you missed the news, we announced a USD $60M investment from Accel Partners for a minor equity position in the company. For reference, it will be Accel’s largest ever investment in a software company. (You can read about it […]
Oh man, what a day! An update on our security breach
Background Around 9pm U.S. PST Sunday evening, Atlassian detected a security breach on one of our internal systems. The breach potentially exposed passwords for customers who purchased Atlassian products before July 2008. During July 2008, we migrated our customer database into Atlassian Crowd, our identity management product, and all customer passwords were encrypted. However, the […]
Atlassian’s 20% Time Experiment
I’m happy to announce that we are undertaking a thorough, public “20% time” trial at Atlassian. If you’ve ever wondered how Google’s famed 20% time works in reality, we’ll be your guinea pigs and blogging the results for everyone to see. Why do 20% time? Atlassian has a proud tradition of innovation. We’ve always strived have […]
Jira Studio: Stream of Development Consciousness
I suspect it comes as no surprise to any developer if I say that “Facebook”:http://www.facebook.com has become extremely popular (not to mention extremely valuable!) over the last year. The feature on Facebook that has most intrigued me is the activity feed. For those that don’t know, Facebook’s feed shows you activity (any form of action […]
Cutlassian 2007
This is going to be a long post but I promise it’ll be worth your while. Grab a cup of joe, sit back, relax and read on matey! h1. The Background Historically at Atlassian, there are 3 big staff events at Atlassian during the year – Christmas, Melbourne Cup (or Superbowl if you’re on the […]
Aeron, Cube or Mac Pro?
We’re known for providing Aeron’s to all employees (not just developers), but someone snapped this photo of Pete, Brendan, Ben and I madly working on some last updates for the “Cenqua acquisition”:http://www.atlassian.com/cenqua. Incidentally this photo shows a few things: # You can never have enough chairs # Mac Pro boxes can easily support a large […]
ShipIt V – Chatrooms in Confluence
For my ShipIt V project, the first challenge was simply committing myself to a single idea. Eventually (after a few single class prototypes) I settled on the challenge of trying to integrate chatrooms into Confluence. After a few trade offs, I think this actually ended up turning out brilliantly – far better than I had […]
Magic Millions
I know it’s a dubious claim (LOC – bah!), but sometime in the last month our public SVN repository cruised passed 1 million lines of code according to Fisheye. (Yes – if you really must you can put on an Austin Powers voice and repeat endlessly “1 million lines of code”) The repository contains all […]
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 choose their codenames and naming schemes. At university, I can still recall that all our machines were all named after classical composers (Mozart, Liszt, Bach…). At my previous firm, the […]
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). (The following is cribbed and edited from an Atlassian internal developer update email – kudos to “Charles”:http://fishbowl.pastiche.org for finding and bringing it to internal attention during his attack on improving […]
Jira 2.1 progress update
Jira 2.1 is nearing completion, we’re hoping to have a beta out early next week. This announcement is just to pass on our progress so far to the broader Jira community. h3. Features There are a few new features, and many, many smaller tweaks and improvements. Most of our work has gone into improving the […]
Chris Winters reviews Jira
Chris Winters has written a “good review of his experiences”:http://www.cwinters.com/News/show/?news_id=928 using Jira on his “weblog”:http://www.cwinters.com/ : _So after submitting an “issue request”:http://opensource.atlassian.com/projects/hibernate/secure/ViewIssue.jspa?key=HB-93 for Hibernate and being immediately impressed with how easy it was to use. (Just an example of how amazingly smart it is to give free services to opensource projects…) So I signed up […]