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Role:	Director of Developer Relations at Atlassian
Email:	jonathan@atlassian.com
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Jonathan Nolen is the Director of Developer Relations at Atlassian Software, makers of JIRA, Confluence, Clover other tools for software developers. At Atlassian, Jonathan created the Atlassian Developer Network which hosts hundreds of free and open-source extensions for Atlassian products. He built the infrastructure that allow the thousands of third-party developers to communicate, collaborate and share ideas.

Prior to Atlassian, Jonathan worked at j2 Global Communications, makers of eFax creating the web infrastructure that supported eFax's millions of users.

Jonathan graduated from Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee in 1998.

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How do you manage to blog so much? I realize the irony of posting that title here, on my personal blog that has barely seen one entry per month lately. However, the subject at hand is actually Atlassian's company blogs, which you can find here and here. And we do manage to post up a good stream of interesting material there. We're tracking about six to eight posts posts a week, if you include both blogs. And we've seen our readership increase steadily since we started keeping track....
Thought for the day Someone said in a meeting I just finished, "URLs are the deep magic of the web." I thought it was a quote that I had read before, but Google says no. But a good thing for web developers to remember.
Bonus Resume Tips While I'm at it, a few bonus resume tips that may be of service to you, no matter the job you're applying for. Don't waste space on an objective. The interviewer doesn't really care what you want, and everyone writes the same thing anyway. Instead, give me a one- or two-sentence description about why I want you. Pre-seed Google. Your potential employer is going to Google you. Make sure there is something there that you want him to find. Being...
Agile QA? Sherali from Atlassian posts about our search for QA developers: Atlassian QA This whole concept is not without controvsery inside Atlassian, and I'd love some input from anyone interested. Has anyone seen a QA team and a agile development team work well together? How was it set up? How did it play out? What do you think of Sherali's plan?
Tables turned - hiring a UI developer I find myself in an odd position. Back when I was first starting my career in technology, I was a web designer. This was circa 1995 and there weren't a whole lot of people who knew what the web was, much less why you'd need to design it. Jobs in the field were not abundant, and interesting, state-of-the-art, forward-thinking web-development jobs were as rare as unicorns. I wanted desperately to build the web, to put into practice all that I...
Atlassian was nominated for a Crunchie Consider this a shameless bleg, but go vote for Atlassian at the TechCrunch Crunchie awards. (You can vote once a day.) Thanks!
Favourite new iTunes feature! I discovered today, by way of a completely inadvertent click, that you can now sort iTunes albums within artist, by year. How cool! That is exactly how I organize my physical CDs. (Yes, I still have those -- and lots of them.)
The nostalgia machine, or kids today! This Slate article about the "Death of Email" has been approvingly linked from a few different places -- Fred Wilson being one, Thomas Hawk being another. A few unrelated thoughts: 1. If you substituted "email" every time the author references IM and Facebook, and "letters" for email, you might have read this exact same article in 1997. [Email is] best-suited for longer musings. As opposed to instant messaging, e-mail provides the breathing room to contemplate what we're writing and express...
Can't judge a book by it's... I find it quite interesting that I just bought four books from a list of the twenty-eight best book covers of 2007. These works had no relationship at all, in genre, topic or style, save the fact that they were well-designed. Amazon's own recommendations — with all of their domain knowledge, understanding of subject matter and customer data — rarely has a hit-ratio that high.
Worst Technology Weekend Ever Friday, Jenn's iBook refused to start up. Then her iPhone died during a software update an lost all it's data. I couldn't recover the data because the iBook refused to start. Saturday, my iPod wouldn't sync, and then died totally during a software restore. Sunday, my MacBook Pro shut down in the middle of a sentence, and refused to run off off its battery. This is the worst technology weekend ever -- every piece of electronics I touch seems to...

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