Blog Posts

If you haven’t had your fill of Mylar yet (I know I haven’t), check out this interview with Mylar Project Lead, Mik Kersten.

Mylar facilitates communication with other team members through the task repository. There’s a handy “Attach context” feature that appears on the task editor that lets you package up your task context and attach it to the task (bug) in the repository. The task context contains the information about the elements...

We have the winners! As part of our birthday celebrations, we are giving away Eclipse sweaters to 20 individuals who signed our birthday card. We had over 2400 people sign the card, so the 20 randomly selected individuals are…… Karol Kleibl Arockia Samy Dominik Najder Neo Wang Krystian Kowalski Paulo...

Mylar hooks to external task repositories. The Mylar download site offers support for integrating with Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac. There is a long talk proposal for EclipseCon that intends to discuss (among other topics) integration with XPlanner. I’ve been using the Bugzilla integration to triage Eclipse Corner Article submissions and...

Mylar remembers what you were doing when you switch between tasks. This is pretty closely related to my second reason, but I think it deserves it’s own special spot. Not only does Mylar keep track of what you’re doing, it keeps track of it on a task-by-task basis. Here, for...

Eclipse Forum Europe starts on April 23, 2007 at the Rhein-Main-Hallen in Wiesbaden, Germany. I really love this conference, so I’m going to be there. The call for papers ends on December 18th. Be sure to get your submission in. … Continue reading →

Some Monday mornings you just know it is going to be a great week. This morning in my e-mail I find a Google alert with the title ‘ The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio‘. The article is based on a press release from Evans Data that indicates in Europe/EMEA Eclipse...

A bunch of my friends and I get together on new year’s day for an annual tradition. This tradition involves using a chainsaw to cut a hole in the ice of the Rideau River (in beautiful, but somewhat chilly, Ottawa), clearing out the ice and then taking turns jumping into...

Mylar focuses you on your task. I’m starting to think of this in terms of top down development. I’ve always done software development using a top-down or "needs driven" approach. That is, I’ve always started by building the tests, then the layer being tested, followed by subsequent underlying layers. I...

Automagic Java Method Folding. As you navigate through your class, Mylar keeps track of the methods you touch (thereby expressing interest). When you open the class, it automatically folds away the methods you aren’t interested in. Of course, the more time you spend with your cursor in a method, the...