Tasktop

Below are our main talks for this fall. I’m particularly excited about the W-JAX keynote, which will take a higher-level look at how Mylyn, Tasktop and ALM tools are changing the face of development environments. If you’re attending and would like to schedule a chat with myself or the other speakers listed, email info@tasktop.com.

	Less is More: Redefining the “I” of the IDE keynote by Mik Kersten Munich, Germany, Nov. 6, 12:15pm
In under four years, Mylyn’s task-focused interface has gone from a university whiteboard into the hands of most developers using Eclipse. Not long ago the notion of a tool that hides more of the program than it shows sounded crazy. To some it probably still does. But as Mylyn continues its incredibly rapid adoption, the numbers are making the next big step in the evolution of the IDE more clear. Tasks are more important than files, focus is more important than features, and an explicit context is the biggest productivity boost since code completion. This talk will discuss how Eclipse and open source have enabled this transformation, provide lessons learned for other tool innovations, and look ahead at how we are redefining the “I” of the IDE.
	Mylyn 3.0: Code at the Speed of Thought talk by Mik Kersten Munich, Germany, Nov. 6, 4:45pm
Mylyn has changed the way developers work. This talk will provide both an overview of the technology and a series of demos that will help newcomers get started. For seasoned users, the demos will also provide some quick overviews of new features and best practices. The theme of the talk is the idea that focus and flow are key to creative work, and that tool support can facilitate focus and help us maintain flow, dramatically increasing our productivity…
	Mylyn 3.0 New & Noteworthy talk by Steffen Pingel Ludwigsburg, Germany, Nov. 20, 12:25pm
With the Eclipse Ganymede release the Mylyn project reached its 3.0 milestone. The talk will review the new and noteworthy features and demonstrate how the new streamlined user interface makes task management easier. A key focus of the 3.0 release was improving the Mylyn framework and APIs. The talk will provide an overview of the APIs and show how Mylyn’s extensibility has enabled a growing ecosystem of integrations to build on the framework….
	Eclipse, Mylyn and the task-focused interface talk by Mik Kersten San Francisco, California, Nov. 20, 10:45am
This talk will start with an overview of Mylyn’s task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations and change notifications, and demonstrate how these work for repositories such as Bugzilla and JIRA. Demonstrations of the tool will show how developers can leverage Mylyn’s automated context management to get a dramatic productivity boost when working with Java, Eclipse plug-in, and web applications. Mylyn’s context sharing and change set management will then be used to show the tool can make the entire team more productive by realigning interaction around tasks…
	Enterprise Development Tools for Spring Applications talk by Christian Dupuis and Mik Kersten Hollywood, Florida, Dec. 2, 11:00am
Spring IDE is the proven standard toolset for doing Spring development within the Eclipse Platform. It supports Spring’s core programming model and the board range of open-source Portfolio Products. With the SpringSource Tool Suite additional value-added features have been introduced that combine Spring IDE and Eclipse Mylyn to significantly streamline the development process and help making SpringSource best-practice knowledge and recommendations available to developers at their fingertips while working in their IDE. This session will introduce the different tool products from SpringSource and will outline their benefits.

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