Mike Cannon-Brookes

I've worked for Atlassian as long as anybody, and I had a little something to do with this crazy Confluence malarky.

I live in the best city in the world, and like to feel sorry for Englishmen who haven't yet left.

My favourite beer is probably James Boag's, although I'm very partial to Sydney Cider right now.

You can also read my other profile here with IM details etc if you wish to get in contact with me in a hurry.

Otherwise, please sit back, kick off your shoes and enjoy my ramblings...

rebelutionary (Mike Cannon-Brookes on J2EE, Java, software development, bug tracking, Atlassian, JIRA and whatever comes to mind.)
Stimulus Update - World Maps & 4 Hours Left A really super quick Atlassian Stimulus update. We're 116 hours in, we have 4 hours left. Total so far $97,470! That's right, we're $2.5k short of $100k. Given that the US is just starting to go out for a beer...
Stimulus Day 3 - Dashboard & Stats Another 24 hours and the snowball that is the Atlassian Stimulus Package keeps rolling. Just incredible. In 75 hours, we've helped almost 5,000 startups and small teams in 77 countries get some kick ass software while raising over $66,400...
Stimulus Update - Holy Cow! It's all hands on deck here at Atlassian HQ. Our little stimulus package seems to have set the Internet alight. A little ultra-quick update. What's happened in the first 48 hours? First, the big announcement. Remember how we had that...
Atlassian Stimulus Package Announced Just a quick post to mention that the Atlassian Stimulus Package has gone live! Following on from my last post on strategy, I have a muuuch longer essay coming covering the why behind it later (which I'll hopefully post later...
Strategy is Something You Can Learn Quite often when speaking I'm asked how we "came up with" Atlassian's strategy and business model. (slide from Scaling Atlassian presentation) For a long while, this question used to throw me. I'd answer something like "Uh... well, it just kind...
A Bicycle for the 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: What a fantastic analogy...
Return of the Charlie 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...
JavaOne, Atlassian and free beer 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...
$USD 1 million, 10,000 customers and 20% time 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...
How to write a bad resume 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...
Atlassian Developers are Talking Nerdy I'm not usually one for blogging humour - but this video that one of our developers shot is hilarious :) Like it? Digg it :)...
Parenthood, Product Management and Pain In spite of the six thousand manuals on child raising in the bookstores, child raising is still a dark continent and no one really knows anything. You just need a lot of love and luck - and, of course, courage....
On Acting Decisively: Confluence + SharePoint Integration “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it's impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength...
WebDirections Presentation: Organisational Wiki Adoption I was a happy attendee at WebDirections South 2007 and WebJam last week. Congratulations to John, Maxine, Lachlan and all involved - truly fabulous conference. The vibe was fantastic and the sessions I attended were all really high quality. Mark...
Flickr supports Talk Like A Pirate Day Everyone will tell you that I love pirates, and being Talk Like A Pirate Day I loved seeing Flickr getting into the spirit of things with a new logo today: (Note: I also love it when Flickr greets me with...