Interview: How Software is Built

I very much enjoyed doing this interview for the Microsoft-created How Software is Built series. In terms of length, it may go against the less is more mantra, but for that I blame the skills of Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell, who raised some very interesting questions and insights. The interview covers building communities, bridging...

Tips on paying for free software

Comments on The Server Side have been voicing concerns about SpringSource’s new maintenance policy, which gives incentive to purchase a support contract if you’re building mission critical apps on Spring. I’ve been amazed at some of the dialog, which ranges from suggestions that SpringSource has neglected its community to recommendations that they should instead ask...

Living inside Eclipse, embedding browsers and Google Chrome

I just spotted a neat post about Living inside Eclipse. This line of reasoning is where Gail Murphy and I were at a couple of years ago when laying out plans for bringing the benefits of Mylyn and Eclipse to activities outside of programming. We had created an RCP version of Mylyn, coined the “task-focused...

Rich Editing for Tasks via Mylyn WikiText

Last April, David Green, Principal Tools Architect at Make Technologies, started a conversation with me about how neat it would be to have Mylyn’s task editor support markup for descriptions and comments. David is a long-time Mylyn user, and we brainstormed about providing this as a new feature for Bugzilla users in addition meeting the...

Article: Tasktop for Eclipse – Get More out of Mylyn

Posted by Robert Elves I have just published an article with tips on how to get more out of Mylyn with the summer release of Tasktop. It starts with an overview of Mylyn, followed by an introduction to Tasktop for Eclipse. The article covers how Tasktop extends Mylyn’s task-focused interface beyond the Eclipse workbench to...

Mylyn 3.0 released

The Mylyn team is very pleased to announce today’s release of Mylyn 3.0 along with the Eclipse Ganymede release train. This occasion marks a big step in the evolution of the task-focused interface: Numerous new features added since the Europa Mylyn 2.0 release, including offline task creation, focus for breakpoints and major performance improvements 1703...

Integrating with Mylyn 3.0

David Carver has blogged some useful experiences about porting from Mylyn 2.0 to 3.0. Mylyn 3.0 contains very significant API changes that make Mylyn connectors more robust and easier to create. This release represents a critical evolution in the maturity of the Mylyn project. The Europa release cycle brought us a very wide diversity of...

Mylyn 3.0 Endgame

There’s a light at the end of the 3.0 tunnel that Mylyn committers have been in—the light is a fast approaching train called Ganymede. Here’s a status update for both early adopters and integrators. Since last June’s Mylyn 2.0 and Europa release we’ve had three releases, and the ecosystem around Mylyn has evolved from a...

Building on Eclipse: the SpringSource Tool Suite

At EclipseCon, while showing the following screenshot, I was struck by the amount of open source collaboration and commercial innovation behind the bits on the screen. You’re looking at the recently launched SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) beta that SpringSource and Tasktop Technologies have been building. The screenshot showcases several open source projects interoperating via common...

Why the Spring Tool Suite is building on Eclipse

There have been some questions about whether the upcoming Spring Tool Suite (STS) will support other IDEs, such as IntelliJ IDEA. Rod Johnson and I recently answered some related questions on InfoQ, but the answer to this one is still evolving, so please consider sharing your thoughts on it. In choosing an IDE integration strategy...