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Community News, ColdFusion Edition

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
News “For many years, ColdFusion’s highest requested feature was an IDE” (Fusion Authority). With the recent release of ColdFusion Builder Adobe has met this need head on. Because ColdFusion Builder is built upon Eclipse developers can leverage many standard Eclipse plugins, and we have recently seen an explosion of interest in Tasktop Pro and Mylyn amongst the ColdFusion community. For ColdFusion developers this recent interest results in newly recorded webinars, blog posts, videos, and articles to help get started with this powerful toolset. Here’s a collection of some of our favorites.

Installing Mylyn onto ColdFusion Builder by Mike Henke
Mike’s recent post walks users through the steps necessary to install Mylyn into ColdFusion Builder, including a five minute screencast illustrating each step.
Know your tools: Productivity Tips/Tricks for CFEclipse/CFBuilder by Marc Esher
Mark Esher shares his knowledge of ColdFusion productivity tools with The Online ColdFusion Meetup. You can either watch his recorded presentation to this virtual group or review his presentation summary.
Mylyn - A Task-Oriented Approach to ColdFusion by Mike Henke
In the The Fusion Authority Quarterly Update you’ll find Mike Henke’s article entitled “Mylyn - A Task-Oriented Approach to ColdFusion”. Mike, a longtime Mylyn user, explains the advantages of working task-focused to ColdFusion developers.
This Week in ColdFusion by TWICF.com
This Week in ColdFusion is a weekly podcast for ColdFusion developers. While this week’s version of This Week in ColdFusion was not focused on Mylyn the broadcasters take a minute to explain how Mylyn impacts their productivity (about 11:15 in the video).
Upcoming Mylyn Presentation at UK ColdFusion User Group by Kevin McCabe
Kevin McCabe with be presenting Mylyn at the UK ColdFusion User Group at the start of June. See the group’s webpage for details on this upcoming meeting.
Mylyn in Bite-Sized Chunks by David Shepherd
This collection of some of the best of Mark Esher’s posts from the past few months is an excellent resource for using Mylyn to improve your productivity as a ColdFusion developer.

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Community News, September 18, 2009

Friday, September 18th, 2009

Blogs
 
Mylyn-Mantis Connector 3.0.5 released by Robert Munteanu
See what’s new in the latest release of the Mylyn connector for Mantis. Also see features and fixes for the 3.0.4 version.
 
Connecting Mylyn to a MySQL Database by Maarten Meijer
Maarten has published a series of blog posts about the Industrial Connector, which enables Mylyn to access data in any MySQL database. Maarten’s blog series describes how to create simple and advanced queries with the Industrial connector and even shows how to connect Mylyn to Eventum. See the whole blog for more articles and updates.
 
SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 Now Available by Christian Dupuis
Check out the latest features in the SpringSource Tool Suite, which is free. The SpringSource Tool Suite includes Mylyn and leverages Task-focused technology in several interesting ways including task-focused tutorials, which show only the code relevant for each tutorial step. The tutorials cover Spring framework development topics such as working with Web Flow and Dynamic Modules.
 
Integration Plan (part 1) by Victor Palau
Victor has previously written about using Bugzilla to track features with Mylyn and this related post shows how the Symbian Foundation is using Mylyn to for software development planning.
 
ScrumWorks Pro + Tasktop = Productivity Agile Development Blog
This post provides a summary and review of the Tasktop integration for ScrumWorks Pro and includes a link to the video showing it in action.
 
 
Articles
 
ScrumWorks Pro 4 orchestrates large-scale agile efforts
by David Rubinstein, SD Times
ScrumWorks Pro 4 has been released with new support for Scrum in large enterprises. The Tasktop Connector for ScrumWorks now fully supports ScrumWorks 4.
 
IBM Sharpens Rational Tools - The new standard is a bid to make IBM’s Rational change management tools more interoperable with other vendors
By Charles Babcock, InformationWeek
This article covers the latest news about the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) initiative to define interoperability standards for change management tools. Tasktop is a member of the initiative and uses OSLC API standards in the ClearQuest Mylyn Connector.
 
IBM hails ALM standards participation by Paul Krill, InfoWorld
More on the OSLC initiative including an analysis of key players that have yet to sign on.
 
IBM supports Open CM initiative in tools by David Rubinstein, SD Times
See this article on OSLC for a more detailed perspective on how the initiative will help developers and ease development of Eclipse Mylyn connectors.
 
 
News Releases
 
ThoughtWorks Studios and Tasktop partner to improve Agile ALM success
with Eclipse Mylyn integration for adaptive ALM
 
Tasktop Pro version of Eclipse Mylyn now fully integrated
with latest release of ScrumWorks Pro
 
IBM, OSLC Promote Interoperability Across the Software Lifecycle
 

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Community News, July 29, 2009

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

starObjectivEClipse 0.2 released by Alex Blewitt
ObjectivEClipse provides support for writing Objective-C in Eclipse and builds on the CDT to provide Mylyn’s task-focused programming support. Check out the screenshots comparing ObjectivEClipse with and without Mylyn.
 
Aptana and Lighthouse for easy ticket tracking by Nater Kane
Learn how to connect Aptana Andretti Alpha to Lighthouse using Mylyn’s Web Templates Connector.
 
Installing Mylyn into ColdFusion Builder by Marc Esher
See this post for steps to install Mylyn into Mylyn into an Eclipse 3.4-based ColdFusion Builder. As discussed in the comment thread, Mike Henke has submitted a feature request to have Mylyn bundled with ColdFusion Builder. If you could also benefit from better Mylyn integration with ColdFusion Builder, vote for the feature request.
 
Mylyn with XPlanner by merereflections
Integrate Mylyn with XPlanner with a few easy steps. “Mylyn is a very powerful tool and now we can use it with XPlanner seamlessly”
 
the best new Mylyn feature by kaazar
kaazar gives the thumbs up to Mylyn’s new “I’m feeling lazy” button first proposed by Chris Aniszczyk, “for those occasions when you just want a task GIVEN to you”.
 
Crowdsourcing Documentation at Eclipse by Chris Aniszczyk
In this article Chris Aniszczyk shows how the Mylyn project crowdsources documentation and asks whether the same approach would work well for other Eclipse projects. Check out the lively discussion thread.
 
Using Bugzilla to track features by Victor Palau
See this post for a proposed set of conventions for using Bugzilla (and Mylyn) to track feature development.
 

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Community News, July 2, 2009

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

It has been a while since we’ve posted news from the Tasktop and Mylyn community. Here are some of the most interesting posts from the last few months.

Enjoy!

Bugzilla works better with Mylyn by Lars Kurth
In this post Lars offers excellent insights on how Mylyn and Tasktop can make Bugzilla access much easier. “Mylyn has transformed my experience with Bugzilla. I can easily stay on top of bugs through 6 bug queries that I have defined. These are neatly displayed in a task list that shows dependencies amongst bugs.”
 
Feature Request: Integrate Adobe Flex Builder with Mylyn by Tim Buntel
Tim makes a compelling case for implementing Mylyn integration for Adobe Flex Builder. “Mylyn is hands down the most useful plugin for Eclipse I’ve ever used. It has dramatically increased my productivity. On my worst day I’m still at least 2x as productive as I used to be. On a good day it’s probably more like 5x… There are 3 specific areas I’d like to see better integration…”
 
I’m feeling Lazy by Chris Aniszczyk
Chris describes the “I’m feeling Lazy” task selection button recently added to Mylyn and how this might be useful. Check out the post for screenshots and interesting follow-up comments.
 
Subversion + Eclipse3.5 = Easy! by Mark Phippard
Mark shows how easy it is to install Subversion support into Eclipse 3.5 Galileo using Mylyn/Tasktop’s Connector Discovery wizard. “…the Eclipse Mylyn team has made the process super-easy in the Eclipse 3.5 release.”
 
Scrum Vision 2.1.1 by Laurent Carbonnaux
Scrum Vision is a free and open source Mylyn connector that uses a Google spreadsheet as a Scrum backlog.
 
Mylyn by Tom
Tom writes about his experiences with Mylyn and Tasktop and how he’s using these tools to integrate applications in his organization. “Trying out Mylyn and Tasktop and I love it. Everyone on my project is required to use Mylyn now, and Tasktop…”
 
Mylyn-Mantis connector quick install in Mylyn 3.2 by Robert
Robert announces the Mantis listing in the Mylyn Connector Discovery wizard.
 
Mantis in Eclipse with Mylyn by Devexp
This post covers some of the benefits of Mylyn Mantis connector, including automatically generated commit comments. “Well, praise the lord, ’cause there is an open source project out there that does all these things called Mylyn.”
 
Issue tracking for better projects by flex.mentalaxis.com
This post discusses the benefits of shared issue tracking systems such as Redmine and touches on the the additional benefits provided by Mylyn. “Mylyn is a sweet Eclipse plugin which really helps to keep developers linked up to the project tracking system…”
 
InDefero Mylyn Connector by seb
See how to connect Mylyn with InDefero using the Web Templates Connector.
 
Using Mylyn with Jira without API access by Jey At
See how to connect Mylyn to Jira using the Web Templates Connector when JIRA’s XML-RPC API is disabled or inaccessible.
 
Mylyn: Integrate Bugzilla with Eclipse by Aneesh
A nice guide to connecting Bugzilla with Eclipse Mylyn. “…whenever a new bug arrives eclipse will pop up a small notification to inform you that there is a new bug. Now you don’t need to depend your browser to read bugs.”
 
An Introduction to Mylyn and Trac by Captain
A concise post on how to configure Mylyn and Trac.
 
Task Focused Programming with Mylyn and Tasktop by Chathurika Sandarenu
Chathurika walks through installation steps and points out some interesting features of Mylyn/Tasktop. “…Trust me this can improve your productivity many times. I personally experienced this during last two days I used Mylyn.”
 

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Community News, March 31, 2009

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
Announcing SpringSource Tool Suite 2.0 by Christian Dupuis
SpringSource has announced general availability of the 2.0 version of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS). The tool suite incorporates a Tasktop Certified task-focused user interface to speed enterprise application development.
 
Atlassian Eclipse Connector 1.0 - Beta now available by Ken Olofsen
“Anyone using the Mylyn plugin for JIRA understands the value of having a task-focused interface for managing your work. What’s really exciting about the new Eclipse Connector is that we have teamed up with our friends at Tasktop in order to provide similar functionality for code reviews in Crucible as well as your Bamboo continuous integration environment.”
 
Mylyn WikiText 1.0 Released by David Green
Mylyn WikiText provides wiki markup parsing and editing support for Eclipse, Mylyn, Ant and stand-alone applications. The new WikiText capabilities enable rich formatting of Tasktop and Mylyn task descriptions and comments using wiki markup.
 
Project Kenai Release Notes: Use Tasktop and Mylyn with Project Kenai
“It is now possible to use Mylyn, the task management tool, with a project that uses JIRA for issue tracking on kenai.com.”
 
Using desktop notifications by Torkild U. Resheim
Mylyn and Tasktop show popup notifications when there are incoming changes to your tasks. In this post, Torkild shows how to add this functionality to your own application.
 
Eclipse hints, tips, and random musings by Wayne Beaton
Wayne Beaton demonstates his Eclipse Slideshow presentation software built with Mylyn WikiText. Check out the video and screenshots.
 
EclipseCon roundup by Alex Blewitt
“About the only big event in Eclipse is the introduction of Mylyn, which allows for context-based filtering of the current working set to reduce the amount of data shown on the screen. That, too, has resulted in its own mini-ecosystem of connectors…”
 

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Community News, January 21, 2009

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
Controlling Your Attention is the New Work Ethic By Gina Trapani
Check out this lifehacker.com post and the follow-up comment by mark_k. mark_k points out how Tasktop helps control attention by working like a GTD inbox, tracking the context of files needed for a task, and providing task-based time tracking.
 
Your Time by Shri
This thoughtful article proposes ways to extend Mylyn to better support task-focused time tracking. Interestingly, much of what the author has in mind is already available in Tasktop. “I have always been curious about how I spend my time. It would be useful or at the very least cool, if I could figure out what I did with the 24 hours I get each day. Considering that this is overkill, it would be useful to find out how much time I spend on each task / client at work…”
 
Eclipse + Mylyn + SourceForge by Metasimian
This post poetically points out the benefits of Mylyn, where to find the documentation for connecting Mylyn to SourceForge, and a helpful tip to get it working. “Mylyn is about mental noise reduction … For those of us with a goldfish’s short-term memory, it is a godsend.”
 
Eclipse Plug-ins (Your Chance to Win A Copy) by James Sugrue
A review of the new “Eclipse Plug-ins” book, which includes content on Mylyn. “This is the third edition of the RCP book, originally titled Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins. The change in title represents the importance of this book. It has become the definitive book on plug-in development, and since I received my copy it hasn’t left my desk.”
 
Getting the Mylyn Source Using a PSF File by Rob Williams
Thinking of contributing to the Mylyn open source project? Rob Williams explains how to check out the source code in one easy step. “…Now, once you get the psf file, it is a HUGE boon. You simply import it and it even lets you bring all the listed projects into their own Working Set.”
 

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Community News, January 7th, 2009

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

This week we’d like to highlight an insightful blog post by David Green. David has applied Mylyn’s degree of interest model to focus complex diagrams on only the interesting elements. You may also be interested in a set of slides from a talk by Avishay Halperen and Ori Dar that concisely introduce the Mylyn framework and some of the technologies that build on it.

Mylyn Context-Driven Domain Diagram by David Green
“After some thinking I realized that the answer to developer productivity was sitting right in front of me: Mylyn task context-driven diagrams. Why can’t the MDD tooling create and maintain a domain diagram based on the interesting domain elements in the active Mylyn context?”
 
Keep on sMylyn by Avishay Halperen and Ori Dar
These slides from Avishay Halperen and Ori Dar’s recent talk at JavaEdge 2008 provide a fresh prespective on the Mylyn framework. Halperen and Dar review key concepts, features, extensions, and how Tasktop and the SpringSource Tool Suite build on Mylyn.
 
Mylyn WikiText at EclipseCon 2009 by David Green
“I’m very excited to be there presenting this new technology alongside Steffen Pingel, who will be providing a Mylyn connector crash course.”
 
EclipseZone’s Top 10 Articles of 2008 by James Sugrue
“Tasktop for Eclipse - Get More out of Mylyn” by Rob Elves came in at #5 in EclipseZone’s list of most read articles in 2008
 

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Introducing Tasktop news summaries

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Every week we come across a growing number of thoughtful articles and blog posts about the task-focused interface technology behind Mylyn, Tasktop and other task-focused tools. These posts include events, how-to’s, experience reports, and reviews of task-focused software. Starting today, we will post a weekly summary of interesting task-focused content.

If you would rather omit these summaries from your feed, please update your reader to use this feed URL: http://tasktop.com/blog/?feed=rss2&cat=-8

Since this is the first community news post, here are some of the best news items from the past several weeks:

Eclipse DemoCamp Vancouver by David Green
“Being an avid Mylyn user, I can see how Tasktop adds a lot of value beyond the basics of Mylyn. As an early beta user of Tasktop ages ago, I’m impressed by how far they’ve come.”
 
Last Night Eclipse Demo Camp by David Dossot
“The whole evening was driven by the Tasktop guys, which gave us a chance to get a feel of the interesting ecosystem that is growing around Mylyn. I would like to turn the spotlight on two projects which are worth discovering on your own…”
 
Eclipse Democamp/Holland Open by Jos Poortvliet
“you MUST have a look at Mylyn”
 
Eclipse Mylyn & Trac by Jumar Mohan
“It is really a good plug-in to try.”
 
Mylyn & ProjectLocker by Runako Godfrey
“One of the more common questions we get at ProjectLocker is whether Mylyn works with ProjectLocker … Good news: ProjectLocker works with Mylyn without any special configuration. We’ve put together a short screencast to show how to get started.”
 
Eclipse question by Eclipse Newbie
“I’ve been drawn to Eclipse by a few features, notably: Mylyn, and would like to try it out.”
 
Mylyn and trac 0.11 by Thomas Einwaller
“If you get used to this kind of “task oriented” working it is hard to do anything without.”
 
What Dan Nedelko has been up to for 2008-11-21 by Dan Nedelko
“Eclipse+Mylyn+Subclipse==very cool”
 
Mylyn: Indispensable by Denis Roy
“I have been using Mylyn heavily for about a year now. I hadn’t realized how much it has embedded itself into my work habits. It was just how I did my job and I never paid attention to how much I was using it. Then my laptop crapped out.”
 
Mylyn Converts Wiki-Based User Guide To Eclipse Help by David Green
“Using WikiText Ant tasks Mylyn is able to convert the online wiki content into Eclipse help using an automated process.”
 
Improving Productivity in Zend Studio 6.1 using Mylyn by David Irving
“I really recommend that you check the plugin out and integrate it into your work process as it makes everything a little bit easier.”
 
Another look at Tasktop by Savio Rodrigues
“The core of Tasktop is Eclipse Mylyn, an open source product. However, Tasktop Starter and Tasktop Pro add additional features and capabilities through commercial, closed source products. Very smart choice if you ask me.”
 
Using Mylyn with Google Code by Alex Ruiz
“Using Mylyn to work on tasks in a project hosted at Google Code is pretty easy, thanks to the Generic Web Repository Connector created by Eugene Kuleshov.”
 
Using Mylyn with Google Code - Updated for Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede) by Alex Ruiz
“The instructions I previously posted to set up Mylyn to work with Google Code do not seem to work with Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede). Luckily, readers of the previous post have kindly left comments with updated instructions on how to make this tool work again.”
 

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