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So I’m off to JavaPolis 07. If you — my trusted readers — are going to be there, drop me a line or pop in to the Atlassian booth and say hello.

Apparently, Wordpress is famous for its 5 minute install procedure, and claims upgrading Wordpress is even easiier. And to be fair, it is a reasonably straightforward three (four?) steps: Step 0: Before You Get Started: Backup and deactivate plugins. Step 1: Replace WordPress files: Extract the new tarball over your existing installation. With special notes about what files [...]

There used to be an SBS program that aired late Saturday nights called Eat Carpet (on wayback). It featured a handful of short films each week and was standard viewing for me for quite a few years after I finished Uni. I don’t know exactly when it was, but it was on Eat Carpet that I saw [...]

So, as I said 3 months ago, I’m now at Atlassian. I couldn’t imagine a workplace more compatible with the old Cenqua lifestyle. I mean, we had a DnD group up and running in the first few weeks! Atlassian has a rich and vibrant technical culture — the internal blogs are pure bliss. And there is [...]

Once again, I forgot to renew my DNS hosting this year, so apologies to any problems that caused. It’s not like my DNS hosting provider didn’t send me enough warning emails (actually they rock) — I just didn’t read them. This time I renewed for 5 years, so you won’t experience this problem again until late [...]

My parent is PZ Myers. 1) The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is… Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams. 2) The best romantic movie in historical fiction is… Erik the Viking. 3) The best nerd song in rock is… Code Monkey, by Jonathan Coulton. The Pharyngula mutating genre meme There are a set of [...]

Today, Atlassian acquired Cenqua. More details here. Kinda seems surreal typing that in. But without a doubt exciting. Certainly seems surreal that I’ll be moving to Sydney, but that is real exciting too. Not much more to say than that at the moment, other than it is full steam ahead on making FishEye, Crucible and Clover kick more [...]

And many other things being equal, useful trumps truth.

Some of you may say “whytf umofo”, and some may say “I’ve always wanted to be able to do that!”. This hack is for the later, but I will try below to explain to the former why it is useful. If anyone knows of an easier way to do it, please let me know. Apache httpd [...]

I’m now back here in Sydney waiting for my connecting flight back to Canberra. Great-googamooga the last few days have been a whirl, and hence a lack of blogging. Day Two (Wednesday) (I didn’t have my camera with me this day.) A good day at the booth. I had a couple of Technical Sessions on my schedule, [...]