Mylar as far as the eye can see…
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.
Blog Posts
Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Five
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...
Eclipse Birthday Card Winners
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...
Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Four
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...
Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Three
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 2007
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 →
The Coming Eclipse of Visual Studio
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...
Here it comes again
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...
Five Reasons to Love Mylar: Part Two
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...
Five reasons to Love Mylar: Part One
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...