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In this post I define and promote refactoring in productivity terms through controlling code complexity.
Heroes, cowboys, incompetent introverts and egomanic wizards all resist pair programming. It's like their kryptonite.
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This is an update to a series on Atlassian's Agile Process I did back in 2007.
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Does unit testing exhibit quantum behaviour? Of course it does!
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Just thought I'd document an important recent scientific finding of mine.
Code about which somebody says "I've already got it running on my laptop" will, when moved to a work machine, be found to not function.
There is clearly some kind of relativistic effect going on here which is specific to the frame-of-reference of one's own laptop.
This is the general law.
The special law of laptop relativity is that if the code was written on public transport, it will be found, from the frame of reference of
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While the Atlassian User Groups have been popping up all around the globe, here at Atlassian Headquarters in Sydney we have yet to host an AUG. That is until now.
In a little over a month, in time for a much awaited southern hemisphere springtime, Atlassian's Sydney offices will host the inaugural Sydney Atlassian User Group meeting.
The event is open to all users of Atlassian products, interested parties and partners.
Being on home turf, this is sure to be well attended and we want to make it something
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