Glassed Update
Graham Glass, one of my Java technology idols (yes – he took on a very tough tech challenge and won – who among you would have built your own SOAP and XML stacks with so many out there? there’s a reason he’s the Ace of Diamonds!) actually reads this blog regularly – so I thought I’d better write something otherwise he’d get bored.
(ps – for reference the picture is hand drawn by myself of myself – I believe I was screaming with some friends on New Year’s Eve – but I agree it’s hard to tell that from the slightly stylised drawing)
(pps – not disrespect to Graham, but I think Eugene got shortchanged by not being the Ace of Diamonds 
– Glue and Electric XML are fantastic, but I have to say that IDEA has truly changed the entire way we all do Java development – an amazing achievement)
Life has been extremely busy as usual, hence the lack luster speed of my postings here recently. I’ve bought a brilliant new warehouse apartment (it used to be the Lee & Perrins Worscestershire sauce factory in Sydney – trivia), Atlassian is going along very nicely (JIRA 3.0 will be our biggest release yet, and Confluence 1.1 will be out any day now with some really neat stuff), we’re in the final stages of looking for more office space in the city, and we are – as usual – always looking for smart people.
If you’re in Sydney and consider yourself a Java guru, who wants to have the best job in town – let us know
Anyway, I must get along and actually do some work – I hope you all enjoyed reading this scintillating post – more later
