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

Sunday, 11 August 2002

From one of my friends: Merli: best use of flash I have *EVER* seen :) Merli: http://mywebpage.netscape.com/Nevermore1313/SMTSFLSH2.swf It's hard to disagree really. 3:08:30 PM  comment []      Quote of the day: "My car has the old 4/80 air conditioning. 4 windows down, 80 miles an hour." 3:02:10 PM  comment []      One thing I wonder from reading Ev's thoughts is how Blogger manages to 'outsource' part of its development to users. Brett also brought the same ideas to mind yesterday. I've always wanted to get our users more involved in JIRA development - we have a feature list as long as my arms, and I'm sure a lot of our users are technically adept enough that they could add the feature they want in a snap. I wonder how this would work. Would users contribute to a commercial product? It's like Open Source but not. Would you? What would you want in return? Is money the only motivator? I know the Jive guys well and I don't think they get many contributions at all from people modifying their source. 1:43:29 PM  comment []      Ev has some scarily familiar thoughts about the growth of Blogger this year: Anyway, that's a rant for another time. The point is, we're making progress. Sometimes I think we're not, but we are. Sometimes I'm banging my head against the wall wondering how we're ever going to get done the things we need to (let alone want to) get done. But then I remember that at the beginning of this year, I was the only one in the whole company, and we had virtually no revenue. And I wasn't having much fun. And then I think, yeah, things always take longer than you think. But we're making progress. Scarily familiar because for me, this is exceedingly parallel to our Atlassian experience so far. The plans are grand, the products and feedback so far are great - but all good things take time. A lot of time. Waiting while things happen is very, very frustrating. Consistent progress, small steps, are the mental 'checkmarks' that keep pushing you forward. Perhaps the dot.com boom has made us all more impatient? 1:37:45 PM  comment []      Joe has some great thoughts about the value of unit testing, and the pain of relational databases. Another smart guy, listen to him. 1:31:25 PM  comment []      Rickard has a new blog - I hope he keeps it up because this is one damn smart guy who doesn't think 'down the line'. Today? Read his thoughts on AOP. (Oh, did I mention that Webwork and Xdoclet also came from his maniacal brain? And he likes JIRA? ) 1:28:03 PM  comment []      I'm posting this from the cafe across the road from my apartment, courtesy of the wireless hub sitting on my balcony. The signal strength isn't bad either, except when a big truck drives by. [The Desktop Fishbowl] God damnit - where does he get those wonderful toys? My Airport doesn't even reach the street, let alone the Craven 150m away. Anyone got any advice on giving this little white dollop a little more juice? 1:23:11 PM  comment []      So did you run out to by Lord of the Rings on DVD? I'm waiting for the four disc special extended edition which comes out in November. The best part? 30 minutes of extra movie they couldn't get in the mass market movie. Read the comparison. 1:09:32 PM  comment []      Daivd hates class loaders. Who doesn't? They're the bane of J2EE development. But he did point me to the Raible Designs blog - which talks about Java, J2EE, OSX and Roller - excellent! 1:06:15 PM  comment []      Charles sounds like he had a top Saturday night. Eating a Shakespeare's pie and getting locked out of his apartment. You see he thinks his first mistake is leaving the key inside. No, clearly the first mistake was not heading for Harry's which has the best pies in Sydney More in: Picking Locks: How I spent my Saturday evening, by Charles Miller. 12:59:37 PM  comment []