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Mike Cannon-Brookes on J2EE, Java, software development, bug tracking, Atlassian, JIRA and whatever comes to mind.

I'm not sure how this video got past me. I thought I was one of the biggest fans of early Steve Jobs history, yet somehow I'd never seen this video of Steve describing computers to him:

Return of the CharlieNovember 12

G'day. It's been far too long. Enough said.

Sometimes life gets busy, so you forget to blog. You'll have more time tomorrow. Then you forget again. And again. Soon you're completely out of the habit of blogging. Small impulses run through your brain periodically - "Oh right, blog - I should do that. Tomorrow.". People start asking "Did you stop blogging for a reason?" or "When are you going to blog?". Tomorrow. Sadly, tomorrow rarely ever gets less busy than today.

Then something happens which jolts you out of the stupor. For me, it was the confluence of two things.

Firstly, I'm in our SF office at the moment because of AtlasCamp - our first developer camp (photos, wiki). It was last weekend, and it was brilliant. A true shot-in-the-arm, slap-in-the-face reminder of what absolutely f**king awesome people we have in the Atlassian ecosystem.

From the tweets, it wasn't just me who felt it rocked:

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

A true thank you to ev

JavaOne, Atlassian and free beerMay 3

I'm back in SF for our User Group (last Thursday @ Stanford - thanks to everyone who came, fantastic UG!) and JavaOne next week.

We have a huge schedule for JavaOne this year - with 6 new product launches in the last three weeks in time for the show - JIRA Studio (the big one), Bamboo 2.0 (distributed builds, Confluence integration), Fisheye 1.5 (real-time per user line count graphs - sample), Crucible 1.5 (project pages, review searches), IDE Plugin 1.0 (our tools inside IDEA!) and Confluence 2.8 (new UI, dynamic page ordering).

Oh - and some pretty dang neat t-shirts

$USD 1 million, 10,000 customers and 20% timeMarch 11

As always, life became busy and I stopped blogging. Apologies!

A few Atlassian, life and (Atlassian + life) updates:

Atlassian is doing a grand experiment in engineering with our 20% time trial - watch that blog if you're a software team, it's really going to be fascinating. We're being open.
We've passed 10,000 customers and $3m in monthly sales, our products won 4 Jolt Awards in one year, Confluence is used to power the White House and we've opened an office in Poland which we're thrilled about. Expect great things from their Pazu project. Things are busy.
In the last month I've been to FooCamp in NZ (which was utterly fantastic - I love Kiwis, they always put on fabulous conferences and werewolf is a new, twisted passion of mine), San Francisco, Poland, Adelaide and I'm currently sitting in sunny (but dark) Brisbane. I hate hotel rooms.
For any JIRA customers, Beyond JIRA gives you a good overview of how all our tools ti

How to write a bad resumeJanuary 7

Having read a lot of resumes over the years, Jeffrey nails it in his post How to write a bad resume.

Most mortals can fit their background on one page. After about ten years of experience, you might merit a second page. Maybe. But think hard first. It might take 15 years before we need to hear it all.

I really don't understand the 3+ page resume fascination.

Charles replied with typical style from a developer's perspective:

I think what many people forget is that a résumé is an exercise in marketing. You’re trying to sell yourself to a prospective employer, but so often I get little more from a résumé than a dry list of technologies, and some useless self-assessments of the applicant’s ability.

I'll just point you to my post on Applying for a Java Job (and from the flip side if you're interested Startup Hiring) - tell me what you did in a resume!

"XYZ Corporation - Developer - Jun 2001-July2004" Thanks - very useful. What did you do? Did you make coffee for the architect and senior developers? Did you develop the