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TASKTOP’S MIK KERSTEN TO KEYNOTE AT ECLIPSECON 2012 ON THE IMPACT OF OPEN SOURCE PRACTICES ON ENTERPRISE AND AGILE ALM

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 17:27:42 +0000

Beyond the impact of open source tools is the emergence of new collaboration and workflow practices that are shaping how software is built

WHO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Mik Kersten â�� CEO and founder of Tasktop Technologies (www.tasktop.com) Kersten is the creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. At Tasktop he provides the technical vision behind Tasktop Dev for desktop-based developer productivity and Tasktop Sync for enterprise ALM synchronization. WHAT:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The Future of ALM: Developing in the Social Code Graph Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is transforming before us. A new breed of tool-supported open source practices is reshaping the ALM landscape and making software delivery the most transparent and connected knowledge work process. During this keynote, Kersten will explore this transformation, show how it will impact software development in the next decade and illustrate how today's developers are helping to shape the digital workplace of tomorrow. Just as the world changed when social networking tools made it trivial for us to externalize our relationships and activity streams, a new collection of open source ALM tools has made it easy for developers to go far beyond dumping code into SCM. Developers are now externalizing their collaboration practices and workflows into a loosely coupled social code graph connected by tasks and relationships. WHERE:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â EclipseCon 2012

Hyatt Regency Reston

Grand Ballroom DEFG

1800 Presidents St.

Reston, VA 20190

WHEN:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Thurs., March 29, 9 â�� 10 a.m. EST CONTACT:Â Â Â For more information on Tasktop Technologies, or to arrange an interview with Mik Kersten please contact Christie Denniston at 303-581-7760 or at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP EXPERTS TO PRESENT MULTIPLE CONFERENCE SESSIONS AT ECLIPSECON EUROPE 2011

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:58:33 +0000

Tasktop continues to support the Eclipse community through thought leadership and sharing of best practices

WHO: Steffen Pingel â�� Senior Software Engineer, Tasktop Technologies

Benjamin Muskalla â�� Software Engineer, Tasktop Technologies

(www.tasktop.com)

Tasktop Technologies is the company behind the Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework and innovative task-focused interface. It provides desktop and enterprise-grade solutions that improve productivity, collaboration and Agile ALM success. Muskalla and Pingel will present the following sessions at EclipseCon Europe 2011.

WHAT: Experiences from Migrating Mylyn to Git and Tycho

November 2, 16:30 - 17:00

Steffen Pingel

Benjamin Muskalla

Until the recent restructuring of Mylyn, numerous committers and contributors have evolved its source code for more than six years in a single CVS module relying on a monolithic command-line driven PDE build, understood by one committer, executable on a single machine. Step-by-step the project was modularized, the build was migrated to Tycho and sources were moved into Git. Hudson jobs now execute on each commit and reproducible releases can be triggered by anyone. This talk highlights decisions taken and discusses lessons learned. Attendees will get an overview of Mylyn's build system, with a focus on knowledge that attendees can apply to their own project.

What the heck are logical models?

Benjamin Muskalla

November 3, 16:00 - 16:30

Did you ever break the code or your models in your SCM? Giving the complexity of today's software systems, physical files are not the only asset in your version control system. During this session Muskalla will give an overview of how Logical Models can better manage the complexity of their systems and how plugin developers can leverage the functionality the Platform provides.

Pimp your Productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn

November 4, 10:30 - 11:30

Steffen Pingel

Benjamin Muskalla

The Git distributed versioning system is being increasingly adopted by the developer community. Using Git for version control makes Gerrit the natural choice for code reviews. Besides source code, requirements and build artifacts play an important role in the development cycles that are now often managed in Hudson and Bugzilla. This session will demonstrate how the tools available within the Mylyn project work together to seamlessly integrate development artifacts in Eclipse, while providing traceability all the way from requirement to the final merge into the production branch.

Task-focused modeling with Mylyn, EMF and Papyrus

November 4, 13:30 - 14:00

Benjamin Muskalla

To bring the productivity benefits of the task-focused interface to engineers using Eclipse-based modeling technologies, Mylyn created a â��Context Bridgeâ�� for EMF-based models and diagram editors. The result is a focused mode for diagrams that shows only the elements related to the task-at-hand. This session showcases the use of the task-focused interface within the Ecore Tools and the Papyrus UML Editor. In addition, it outlines the aspects of bringing the task-focused interface to model and diagram editors, and provides a quick overview of how to enable these for each diagram type.

WHERE: EclipseCon Europe 2011, Nov 2-4, Ludwigsburg, Germany

(http://eclipsecon.org/)

INFO: For more information or to arrange an interview with Steffen Pingel or Benjamin Muskalla, please contact Christie Denniston at +1 303-581-7760 or by email at (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES’ EXPERTS TO PRESENT LATEST MYLYN UPDATES AND BEST PRACTICES AT ECLIPSECON 2011

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 02:00:06 +0000

TASKTOP TECHNOLOGIES' EXPERTS TO PRESENT LATEST MYLYN UPDATES AND BEST PRACTICES AT ECLIPSECON 2011

Six presentations look at the continued adoption of open source development tools in the enterprise and how Mylyn drives ALM productivity

WHO: Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop and creator of the open source Eclipse Mylyn project

Neelan Choksi
President and COO, Tasktop

Benjamin Muskalla - software developer, Tasktop
Steffen Pingel - software developer, Tasktop

Tasktop Technologies
(www.tasktop.com)

WHAT: With Mylyn now a top level project within Eclipse there is continued innovation and thought leadership around the Tasktop task-focus interface and ALM integrations that are available through the Eclipse IDE. At EclipseCon 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, March 21 - 24, the following six presentations will be conducted by both Tasktop team members and contributors to the Eclipse Mylyn project.
Monday, March 21 13:30 - 13:50

Tired of CVS? Pimp your productivity with Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn
by Tasktop's Benjamin Muskalla and Tasktop's Steffen Pingel
Tuesday, March 22 14:00 - 14:20

The Mylyn Reloaded
by Tasktop's CEO Mik Kersten (and Chris Aniszczyk and Wayne Beaton)
Tuesday, March 22 14:30 - 15:10

The Business of Selling Free Software
by Tasktop's Neelan Choksi
Tuesday, March 22 19:30 - 20:30

Mylyn - Application Lifecycle Tools BoF
with Tasktop's Kersten, Pingel, Muskalla, and Choksi
Tuesday, March 22 10:40 - 11:00

Case Study: Shipping Mylyn Reviews for Software Development in Air Traffic Management
by Mylyn Review lead Mario Bernhart as well as Stefan Reiterer and Killian Matt
Tuesday, March 22 11:10 - 11:30

Mylyn meets Intent : Documentation made fun and useful
by Cedric Brun

WHERE: EclipseCon 2011
Hyatt Regency Santa Clara
Santa Clara, Calif.

CONTACT: For more information or to set up an interview with any of the speakers listed above, please contact Christie Denniston at Catapult PR-IR 303-581-7760, ext. 13 or (cdenniston@catapultpr-ir.com).