Task Focused Programming with Eclipse Mylar

Eclipse Mylar’s task-focused interaction technology has changed the way that
developers work. Current IDEs overload developers with tens of thousands of
artifacts, meaning that we often spend more time searching, scrolling, and
navigating than we do programming. Mylar focuses the entire UI of Eclipse to
show only the information relevant to the task-at-hand. With Mylar,
multi-tasking becomes effortless, and recalling previous work only takes a
single click. In addition, Mylar’s integrated task management facilities
displace the cumbersome browser and email based mechanism of task tracking.

This talk will start with an overview of Mylar’s task management features
including features offline editing, background synchronizations and change
notifications, and demonstrate how these work for repositories such as
Bugzilla, JIRA, and Trac. Once your tasks are in Eclipse, Mylar provides
support for automatically managing your task context as you work, an
approach that has been validated to make programmers much more productive.
Demonstrations of the tool will show you how to get the most out of Mylar’s
task context management when working with Java, plug-in, and web
applications. Mylar’s task context sharing and change set management will
then be used to show Mylar can make the entire development team more
productive by realigning interaction around tasks.