Technology

Information about Tasktop and Mylyn

 

 

Technology

  Interview: How Software is Built with Mik Kersten, by Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell (Oct. 2008)
Interview covers building communities, bridging academic, open source and commercial models, the history of Mylyn and Tasktop, and innovation ranging from IDEs to the iPhone.
  Tasktop: Bringing Mylyn's Task-Focused Interface to Everyone with Mik Kersten, by Ryan Slobojan, InfoQ (Feb. 2008)
Interview about the first release of Tasktop
  Interview with Mik Kersten JavaMagazin, SDA India (Mar. 2008)
Interview about the Mylyn project, SpringSource Tool Suite and Tasktop
  Q&A with Mik Kersten by Ed Burnette ZDNet (Dec. 2006)
Interview discussing the 1.0 release of Mylyn, then called Mylar


Foundations

The roots of Tasktop and Mylyn are university research done at the University of British Columbia, which determined that the task-focused interface provides a statistically significant productivity increase. The papers linked below provide an overview of that research. Note that Mylyn was previously called Mylar.

    Focusing knowledge work with task context by Mik Kersten (Jan. 2007)
PhD thesis describing the foundations of the task-focused interface
    Using task context to improve programmer productivity by Mik Kersten
and Gail Murphy (Nov. 2006)
Foundations of Software Engineering conference paper on the degree-of-interest model
    WYSIWYN: Using Task Focus to Ease Collaboration by Mik Kersten, Rob Elves and Gail Murphy (Nov. 2006)
CSCW workshop paper on the task-focused interface and collaboration
  How are Java software developers using the Eclipse IDE? by Gail Murphy, Mik Kersten and Leah Findlater (2006)
IEEE Software article, (c) IEEE
  The Emergent Structure of Development Tasks by Gail Murphy, Mik Kersten, Martin Robillard and Davor Cubranic (2006)
ECOOP invited paper, (c) Springer-Verlag
    [Mylyn]: a degree-of-interest model for IDEs by Mik Kersten and Gail Murphy (Mar. 2005)
AOSD conference paper discussing the first implementation of the task-focused interface


Historical

  RedMonkTV: Mylyn Conversation and Demo by Mik Kersten and Michael Cote (July 2007)
Cote talks with Mik Kersten about Mylyn and task contexts

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