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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.

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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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