Eclipse Day at the Googleplex: Mylyn Simplifies Development

Google Tech Talks
June 24, 2008

ABSTRACT

Eclipse Day at the Googleplex
How Mylyn Changes the Way I Develop
by Bjorn Freeman-Benson, Eclipse Foundation

Mylyn is an Eclipse project that gives tasks first-class status in the developer workspace. In this presentation Bjorn will show how task focused programming simplifies his (developer) life. Mylyn makes it easier for him to maintain focus while switching between tasks and to collaborate on tasks with geographically and time-zone disparate developers. Fair warning though: once you've started using Mylyn, you never want to return to the old ways.

About Bjorn Freeman-Benson:
Bjorn is the Director for Committer Community at the Eclipse Foundation, a position that is tailor-made for someone with his keen interest and experience in building high-quality software with geographically distributed teams. He has dabbled in applications and user interfaces, but returns, like the swallows to San Juan Capistrano, to his three foci: hardware, software and process (embedded devices, programming languages and software engineering). Bjorn has worked for OTI, Amazon.com, Rational and Gemstone, along with a career as a university professor. He has an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Washington, and is happy to talk at length about his passion for orienteering and/or his love of flying.

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[TiLeNpWneD]

I like MyLyn a lot. It makes my life easier!

[ericjain]

Great speaker (though a more of a user than an active developer on the Mylyn project). The first half of the talk explains what Mylin does, including a (too short) demo. The second half is spent answering a lot of (good) questions from the audience.

[GSJHowell]

Nice to see someone other than @mik_kirsten evangelizing Mylyn. #yam

[narotoking]

hows this vid 45 mins long?!?!?!?!?!

[laxbillion89]

nice talk.. i like this talk.. and the speaker.. he actually speaks to the point, never goes away from the main theme of the talk