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It is JavaOne time again, and I arrived in San Francisco this morning. I’m finally getting used to the 13 hour flight from Sydney to SF. I don’t know if that is a good thing. It is going to be a busy year this year. Some highlights below. If you are in San Francisco note that [...]

FishEye and Clover won Jolt awards this year! FishEye in the “Change and Configuration Management” category and Clover in the “Testing Tools” category. They are “the Oscars of our industry” which — for better or for worse — is about right. But I still I have a fondness for the Jolt awards. The first time I [...]

Via the teaparty: 10:49:42 PM spud: it’s finally being pooped out http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html 10:52:58 PM michael: @spud: gentlemen, start your parentheses! 10:59:10 PM spud: “Arc only supports Ascii. I realize that supporting only Ascii is uninternational to a point that’s almost offensive … But the kind of people who would be offended by that wouldn’t like Arc anyway.” [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Woi, and intense, exhausting, exciting day yesterday. In typical form, we managed to setup our booth (above) and demos just moments before the Exhibitor’s Pavilion opened. The first day on the floor is always a killer: 11:30am to 8:30pm. I was wise and kept up my sustenance over that period; an apple for breakfast and an Oreo [...]

The “JRuby: understanding the fuss” talk was very interesting. I was surprised to see how rich and “deep” the Ruby mode in Netbeans was. And step-debugging through lines in .rhtml files was a very neat trick. They asked how many people in the audience liked doing webapp development using their framework of choice. The [...]