President of Tasktop, Lead of the Eclipse Mylyn Project
Mik Kersten is the President & CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project, and a committer on the AspectJ projects. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC Mik created the first Aspect-Oriented Programming tool support and implemented AspectJ plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, VisualStudio, and Emacs. Mik created Mylyn and the Task-Focused UI technology while completing his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. His passion is building tools that make it more natural and less stressful to work on very large systems.
Presentations by Mik Kersten
Recently, the benefits of Mylyn have been combined with the open source Spring IDE project to provide a tool for developing Spring applications. Come to this talk to see this development tool in action.
Mylyn's task-focused UI is changing the way that developers work. Current IDEs overload us with the tens of thousands of artifacts that make up an enterprise application, and as a result we spend more time searching, scrolling, and navigating than we do programming. Eclipse Mylyn is the solution to this problem. The talk will start with live demos to show you what Mylin can do and will conclude with a showcase of popular development tools that integrate with this cutting-edge technology.