Optimize Your Workday with Tasktop and the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse

The new 2.0 release of the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse provides the latest and most complete access to Atlassian’s development and collaboration tools from within the Eclipse IDE. This provides developers with an integrated platform for managing issues, source code, builds, and code reviews. Combining the Atlassian Connector for Eclipse with Tasktop Pro delivers a...

Mylyn Best Practices in Bite-Sized Chunks

Over the past year I’ve been working closely with those in the Tasktop and Mylyn community at large to define best practices for task-focused programming and collaboration. My goal has been to share what I’ve learned about how the leaders in task management use Tasktop and Mylyn to collaborate effectively. To this end, I’ve created...

Où sont passés les services ?

Le Center for Collective Intelligence (http://cci.mit.edu) du Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) est établi autour de la question de recherche fondamentale : "Comment les gens et les ordinateurs peuvent-ils être connectés de sorte que, collectivement, ils agissent plus intelligemment que tout individu, groupe ou ordinateur ne l'a jamais fait auparavant ?" Je pense que c'est une question d'ouverture fantastique pour toute entreprise de logiciels (ou de services)...

Mylyn Atlassian JIRA Connector Moving

The Mylyn JIRA Connector has been developed as part of the Eclipse Mylyn project since 2006 (Bug 109905), when Wesley Coelho and I met in a Vancouver coffee shop and decided to start collaborating on an idea for a startup that involved extending Mylyn’s open source integrations to commercial tools. A year later Wesley became...

Suivi du temps - Comment mon organisation doit-elle s'y prendre ?

Lorsqu'un nouveau client s'inscrit chez Innotas et commence à travailler avec son Customer Success Manager, l'un des premiers sujets abordés est la gestion du temps. Bien que la plupart des clients souhaitent suivre le temps de leurs ressources informatiques, ils ne savent pas toujours quels types d'activités suivre, à quel niveau de granularité, ou quels sont les avantages qu'ils...

Mastering the Eclipse Toolset: Change Sets

Summary: Learn how to become a master of the Eclipse Change Set Toolset, increasing your individual effectiveness and improving your team’s communication. Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Eclipse Mylyn Supported Connectors: Bugzilla, ClearQuest, CollabNet, JIRA, Mingle, Rally, ScrumWorks Pro, Trac, VersionOne (coming soon) Supported SCMs: CVS, Subversion (SVN), ClearCase (coming soon) “An apprentice carpenter may...

Tasktop and VersionOne team up on Eclipse Mylyn integration for Agile teams

Today marks the start of a major extension of Eclipse and Mylyn’s reach into Agile project management. We’re very pleased to announce a partnership with VersionOne to develop an Eclipse Mylyn connector for VersionOne’s Agile planning and project management platform. The Planview Certified VersionOne Connector will be included in Tasktop Pro and available as a...

Eclipse ecosystem: Open discourse at the risk of open conflict

Open discourse brings conflicts out from behind closed doors. A while back I was involved with an open source conflict that degraded technical discussions to power struggles. I looked to Bjorn Freeman-Benson and Mike Milinkovich the help resolve that conflict. This week, countless eyes were peeled on Planet Eclipse as a very public conflict arose...

Don’t Break the Build: A Developer’s Guide to Care-Free Commits

Summary: Learn how to submit the right files for a given fix every time, even when working on multiple bugs concurrently, avoiding the sin of breaking the build. Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Eclipse Mylyn Supported Connectors: ClearQuest, ScrumWorks, JIRA, Rally, CollabNet, Bugzilla Supported SCMs: CVS, Subversion (SVN), ClearCase (coming soon) (Photo courtesy of seeb’s Photo...

How-to: task-focused programming

Applies to:  Tasktop Pro or Eclipse Mylyn Level:  Beginner Summary:    Learn how to focus your Java programming efforts with Tasktop, increasing your personal productivity  Which files was I working with before lunch? In the course of a day of programming developers often work on many tasks, where each task involves a different set of...