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From Generalists to Specialists

A while back Atlassian reached $100 million in all time revenue. We've asked some of our employees to give us their take on how they've seen the company grow. Better late than never, VP of Engineering, Soren Harner: When I joined Atlassian in 2007, we had one-third the number of people in product development we have today, crammed into two rooms in a small office on George St. in the Sydney CBD. Bicycles were parked in all corners, and there were no showers, which made pair programming a challenge

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ANTLR lecture at Atlassian in Sydney this evening

Terence Parr is presenting ANTLR this evening Wednesday 20 June at our new office here in Sydney: 173-185 Sussex Street Sydney, NSW, 2000 Australia Google Map reference is http://tinyurl.com/yu9hh8 The time is 6:00pm for beer and pizza, 6:30 start. The Sydney Java Users Group (SJUG) has organised this lecture: "Our speaker is Terence Parr, a professor of computer science and graduate program director at the University of San Francisco where he builds programming language tools such as ANTLR and StringTemplate. Terence

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Fedex V Social Network Analysis of Atlassian Blogs

For my Fedex Day project, I wrote an application to extract social interaction data from internal Atlassian blog posts and perform several types of Social Network Analysis. Social Network Analysis uses graph theory algorithms to study social relationships among individuals. I compared the Atlassian blogging community to three other datasets, which can be downloaded for research: interactions among a group of 62 dolphins; social interactions in a Karate club at a US University; and co-appearances

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