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Mike Cannon-Brookes on Java, J2EE, OSX, Open Source, Australia, Atlassian, Bug Tracking, JIRA and more...

Friday, 5 July 2002

Need Open Source Java Crypto? BouncyCastle. 4:04:32 PM  comment []      More I want my company to be... reactions: Pat wants happiness and to like his coworkers. (Oh and not having to fix printers is important!) David just wants his company to be anywhere that pays his salary, given the current conditions. Gerhard thinks that working for Atlassian sounds dreamy - we're far from there yet mate, but at least we have a vision of  what we want to be. Charles has revised his list to include a company "staffed by attractive women with a thing for nerds". and Brett just wants a job. (Seriously - if you live in Sydney and consider yourself a guru J2EE developer with passion for creating quality software, get in touch with me.) 11:04:27 AM  comment []      Fuzzy Scott on software bugs: There are bugs in everything these days.  Now it may just be me, engineers who used to work for me have called me the "Bermuda Triangle of Software Bugs" (I can find bugs or UI issues in just about anything), but I find the quality standards in high tech deplorable.  I agree completely. Software bugs is a personal issue to me, but we're trying to do something about it.  So is it fair to Radio for me to give it crap when Microsoft (and others) have the same -- and significantly worse bugs -- across both the application and platform layers?  No it isn't.  I'm not going to hide the issues -- but I will work constructively with totally cool, passionate people like Jake -- to get the issues addressed.  So I didn't sell out at all.  If anything I hope to make Radio just a little bit better by feeding them some additional input. I have heard a number of people say that Radio/Frontier are buggy, slow, unstable etc. I have even experienced a number of Radio bugs (usually in the News aggregator) that I haven't reported myself - because there is nowhere to report them. Oh I know I could email some address, but I can't find where that address is? Has someone reported the bug already? Perhaps I can add my comments and environment to their issue? But Userland has no bug tracking as far as I can see - the best I can find is a few lists of bugs (note this was posted in 1999). Now I love Radio, and we make a bug tracking package (the best bug tracking package available IMHO) - so I'm in a position to do something about it other than just whinge. If anyone from Userland is reading (or if Scott wants to tell them via Paolo) and serious about fixing the problems in Radio - email me. We're happy to donate a free license for JIRA, as well as assistance setting it up and maybe even hosting - because as a heavy, daily Radio user I want it to be less buggy! 10:53:50 AM  comment []      Matt Mower reviews Copernic Summarizer. I tried it out last night - for some articles it produces scarily good summaries. For others, they are appallingly confusing. My take on this is that the quality of the summary depends on the type of content - the problem there being that you don't know what type of content it is until you read it, and then you probably don't need a summary! 10:30:52 AM  comment []      The Technology Secrets of Cocaine Inc. In a sense, the cartels are putting their own dark twist on the same productivity-enhancing strategies that other multinational businesses have seized on in the Internet age. Indeed, the $80 billion-a-year cocaine business poses some unique challenges: The supply chain is immense and global, competition is literally cutthroat, and regulatory pressure is intense. The traffickers have the advantages of unlimited funds and no scruples, and they've invested billions of dollars to create a technological infrastructure that would be the envy of any Fortune 500 company. 12:55:30 AM  comment []      James Strachan on Google: "Fascinating stuff. I always find it amazing that you can search the entire web much faster than I can search a few weeks worth of personal email on my laptop via MS Outlook." This is far too true - but we are doing something about it - more news to come soon. ";)" 12:32:21 AM  comment []      Why Microsoft makes a complete hash out of C#: I agree - instead of calling it 'C sharp', we should call it 'D flat' because they're the same musical note. 12:25:11 AM  comment []      hahahahah hahahah hahah ha - oh I should stop laughing before art imitates reality.  PS Alina - don't look at the cartoon. [The FuzzyBlog!] [Brett Morgan's Insanity Weblog] 12:18:16 AM  comment []      And the audience cheers and claps loudly... Well perhaps not - but JIRA 1.3 final was released today, so at least a few people in the office are cheering! Download it, test it, use it, fall-in-love-with it, need it, buy it 12:10:39 AM  comment []