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Scott Farquhar

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Scott Farquhar is a Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, along with his university friend, Mike Cannon-Brookes. Outside Atlassian, Scott is passionate about making corporate philanthropy an integral part of business, spearheading the Pledge 1% movement. He is also a co-founder of Skip Capital, a private investment fund, and is a Board Director of the Tech Council of Australia. He has been recognised as a leading entrepreneur by Ernst & Young and Forbes, amongst others.


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When caching is not caching

Back in July last year (how time flies), I investigated how we could use caching in our products to improve the user experience. This resulting in creating a framework for serving content that can be cached on the client. We now use this for Jira, Confluence and Bamboo. The idea is that some resources (css, […]


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Mind blowing support from Contegix

I was going to write a long post about how fantastic Contegix is for java hosting, but I think that this email exchange pretty much says it all: On Apr 22, 2006, at 12:09 AM, matthew.porter@contegix.com wrote: Charles: After multiple attempts to restart the javablogs.com system for the past 1 hour, 18 minutes, we are […]


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Finally – a direct link to download the JDK!

Firstly – if you distribute server-side Java applications, then this URL will make your life a lot easier: http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/jdk/download.jsp. If that doesn’t mean anything to you, read on… As most Java programmers are aware, there are two distributions of Java from Sun. The Java Runtime Environment (JRE), and the Java Development Kit (JDK). The first […]


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Preview Documentation available for Jira 2.1

In a bizarre twist of fate, we have managed to release a beta version of our documentation before our beta version of Jira 2.1. Jeff, (our documentation guy and current maintainer of the Apache Forrest project, and all round top bloke), has been hard at work converting our docs to Forrest format, and adding in […]