Wayne Beaton's blog

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...

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 →

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...

I’ve been using Mylar for about two weeks and I’m still really impressed. I have been doing some Java development these past weeks, but most of my work has involved editing PHP files and triaging Eclipse Corner Articles bugzilla entries. I’ve been doing it all with Mylar. The first thing...

It’s been almost two decades since I’ve written anything in FORTRAN. And to be honest, that something was a single program and I can’t quite remember what it was (I think it might have been an expert system I named “ Electric Monk“, but I can’t be certain). I’ve known...

For kicks last night, I decided to see how well Apache Harmony could run Eclipse. The answer is “pretty well”. The Eclipse platform itself runs very well. I edited a bunch of files, manipulated a bunch of resources, dabbled a bit with some properties and preferences, and just generally kicked...