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...

Tasktop Dev how-to: Create tasks with style

Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Tasktop Dev Starter, and Mylyn Level: Intermediate Summary: Learn how to create tasks with good style, speeding your personal workflow and facilitating collaboration Tasks are a vehicle for communication. Tasks that you create may be completed by others, and next month you might resume tasks that you create today. Whether communicating with...

How-to: Track Tasks with Queries, Not Email

  S'applique à : Tasktop Pro, Tasktop Starter et Mylyn Niveau : Résumé : Apprenez à suivre les tâches avec les requêtes Tasktops, en éliminant les e-mails de mise à jour des tâches MISE À JOUR le 30, 2009 janvier : Nous avons révisé la meilleure pratique pour simplifier la configuration et éviter les tâches en double dans la liste des tâches. Nous aborderons des configurations plus avancées dans un prochain...

How-to: Connect to a Repository

Applies to: Tasktop Dev Pro, Tasktop Dev Starter and Mylyn Level: Introductory Summary: In this article you will learn how to connect Tasktop Dev to Task Repositories such as JIRA, CollabNet, Rally, and Bugzilla We’re pleased to announce the first in a series of “How-to” posts that will help you make the most of the task-focused technology...

Mylyn is turning Japanese

While Mylyn will happily display other languages and character sets coming from the task repository, the Mylyn UI has never been internationalized. The Eclipse Babel project has provided a great service by enabiling the community to contribute translations. But to support Babel, a project needs to update its codebase to support internationalization. In a tireless...

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...