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

Monday, 9 September 2002

From Wither Came The Aussies?. Here recently, every time I turn around I trip across another cool project from some Australians. There's the Atlassian folks and the guys who produce Clover, and Greg & the Jetty team, just to name a few. Is this a new occurence? Or have I previously been amerikacentric and just in denial of things coming from the southern hemisphere? Did .au universities recently start producing more and better engineers? What gives? Regardless, it's a Good Thing.... [bob mcwhirter] Did you see Tridge won an award in something called the Australian Open Source Awards? Now I've never heard of 'em before, but what the hell eh? Tridge is a legend, and the trophy looks awesome. Australia does have some very good people though - it's not all about crocodiles, beaches and sport stars. What can you say but? Aussie, Aussie, Aussie. (I suppose if I was American I'd have to say something crass like "We rock man" or "We be laying the smack down" - but that would make me sound silly ) 11:57:31 PM  comment []      FORTUNE - Where Are They Now?: "They came to us pitching gee-whiz business plans and painting visions of integrated platforms, enabling technologies, and wizardry beyond compare. They created billions in wealth that seemed built on--and that all too often evaporated into--thin air. They preached until we were converted. And then they disappeared. What's become of those agents of change, many of whom once graced our list of the 40 richest Americans under 40" Dot com millionaires today... where are they [Julian's Scrapbook] 11:50:41 PM  comment []      Having 'got it' I now see this Macromedia ships ColdFusion MX for Java. CF is really just a tag based scripting language, with a lot of default tags where any 'script' can be used as a 'tag'. Sound familiar? 11:49:35 PM  comment []      Wow. I grok Jelly. I mean, I get it. Cool! Our Ant build system is gone tomorrow, replaced with a Jelly one. Watch this space 11:46:56 PM  comment []      Because I was bored... "I once knew a very fine lass, who didn't have very much mass, of all her bits, I liked her tits, almost as much as her ass." 10:55:10 PM  comment []      Brett on Crossbar. Could be interesting. But does it do graphs? Uhm - not sure, but it does have a brand spanking new, sexy looking JIRA 1.4 site to handle its bug tracking! 7:55:23 PM  comment []      Googlecooking!. Jason Kottke wrote in to say that Meg's mother has invented Googlecooking: "shortly before supper time I look around for some combination of foods I've got on hand and which seem like they might go together. Then I 'google' them [...] and browse through the results until I find a recipe that appeals to me." Meg writes: "I've always wanted a database of all my cookbooks so I could do just this. It never occurred to me to use Google instead."... [Google Weblog] Yes! What a f'king top idea! This is like Aristos on steroids. 7:43:44 PM  comment []      I came across Crossbar today. It is an interesting idea. Instead of integrating reporting into your application, it is an open source WAR you can deploy in your container that will generate reports from any database or Lucene store. Cool. The docs are a little light at the moment, but it is still early days. Also it looks like a great candidate to integrate with Jasper for PDF reporting. 7:32:48 AM  comment []