Monthly Archives: December 2007

My week @ Javapolis

What a week! Javapolis was my first "real" conference and it was certainly an experience. Four days, 3300 attendees and 250 Atlassian t-shirts given away. The days were long and usually started with us setting up around 8 in the morning and on a few nights, we were still giving demos at 8 at night! We were armed with two gorgeous 30 inch Apple Cinema Displays which was coveted by all and sundry. The week started ominously with Matt sending his bag (and laptop and presentation) for a relaxing trip

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Vote for Atlassian in the Crunchies

What a great way to end the year! Atlassian has been nominated for the Crunchies! 82,000 nominations were made for thousands of individual startups. The top startups in each of twenty categories have made it to the final vote. Starting now, you can vote for the startups you think are most worthy in each of twenty categories - from "best technology achievement" to "best overall startup." This is the first annual Crunchies award and voting is open until January 10. Time to get the vote out! If you

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Sydney Christmas Party

  • By Robyn Munro, Marketing Events and Communications Assistant
  • News
  • On December 20, 2007
The Sydney crew took a far less refined road to celebrate the holiday season - that of go-karts and laser skirmish! We took two bus loads of staff down to Picton and had a fantastic day shooting at workmates and seeing who had the fastest track times. It was a great way to finish another successful year. Vrooom, vroom. Reve those engines up, Atlassians! Time to gear up and play! Just a bit of harmless fun. See more photos from the day.

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Product Management: Atlassian Style

We're always interested in hearing from our customers and trying to incorporate what they want into our new releases. Using JIRA, customers can request features while other customers vote for which of these features they would like to see in a product and can add comments on why its important to them. This puts our product managers in the very unique position of balancing hundreds of feature requests alongside product updates and launches—all while doing their best to stay true to our values. Brett

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The first thing you do when you get a new Mac is…

...to install Ubuntu on it! Well, not true actually, but I thought it would still make a good title for a blog ;). The standard machine upgrade at Atlassian these days seems to be a shiny new MacPro. They're some of the sexiest machines I've had the pleasure to develop on. 4 cores and 4GB of memory really don't bog down all that often. There was one problem however: OS X. Now don't get me wrong. I think OS X is a beautiful operating system, and in my opinion it is probably the best operating

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