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Villa Arconati ‘23

Professional and enthusiast programmers have been able to ask their questions freely on online community site Stack Overflow for the last six years. Now, Australian-based enterprise software firm, Atlassian, has announced its own version for the enterprise, Confluence Questions 1.0. Initially launched as a beta version last September, which has since been trialled by Atlassian customers, including Boeing and Dow Jones, Confluence Questions 1.0 is team documentation collaboration add-on for Confluence that allows enable teams or entire companies to share their questions and answers in a central internal location.

My journey from paper books to my coveted nook was a slow process. I, like many others, felt that reading electronic books just couldn't have the same ambiance as reading the well worn pages of a good novel. The excitement of turning a page and being able to visually see how much more you had left in a chapter... that's what reading is all about, right? So how could I possibly start reading electronically? Outwardly I railed against the idea...I am not a techno geek (or so I thought). Repeated advertising of this new technology got me thinking though. Perhaps I should just embrace my inner nerd and check this out. As an avid reader, mainly those sappy romance/erotic novels (which should preferably feature some supernatural or rugged hero who needs saving of his own, as well as a strong yet vulnerable heroine) I found that I was purchasing paperback after paperback. I also rarely read a book more than once. I mean once you know the story why waste your time re-reading when you