MyLyn - Anything like that in Visual Studio ?
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There is a fascinating content-packed webinar from 19-December, which you can find with the Google query (( MyLyn 2.2 Webinar )). I have never used Eclipse and don't own Team System, but at a casual glance Visual Studio seems to be missing the context-switching-paradigm of MyLyn, yet searching say channel9.msdn.com for MyLyn yields ZERO hits. Appreciation in advance for advice from those who have used say both Team System AND Eclipse/MyLyn, please ?
pg--az
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There is a fascinating content-packed webinar from 19-December, which you can find with the Google query (( MyLyn 2.2 Webinar )). I have never used Eclipse and don't own Team System, but at a casual glance Visual Studio seems to be missing the context-switching-paradigm of MyLyn, yet searching say channel9.msdn.com for MyLyn yields ZERO hits. Appreciation in advance for advice from those who have used say both Team System AND Eclipse/MyLyn, please ?
pg--az
Never heard of MyLyn. What is it?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Never heard of MyLyn. What is it?
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
Like I say, if you paste (( MyLyn 2.2 Webinar )) into Google, the 2nd hit down is the actual webinar at "Eclipse Live". I am a religious user of McAfee Site Advisor, which I use with FireFox. If you had SiteAdvisor loaded, then you would see the reassuring green dot beside the eclipse.org-link. This is why I prefer to phrase links in terms of Google queries, it's the way *I* like to be referred to things. Anyway MyLyn is the Eclipse incarnation of Mik Kersten's Ph.D Thesis "Taskscapes: a topographical model of task context", which in the desktop incarnation at tasktop.com promises to be perhaps revolutionary, it is still in Beta. One problem with Kersten's Open-Source efforts is the ridiculous number of open bugs which you will get a feel for by watching the webinar. Certainly a possibility is that the "break-to-fix-ratio" might actually be exceeding 1.00, that is, fumbling nitwits cause more damage that their ill-considered patches solve. This was definitely the case with IBM's OS-360, past a certain point the known-bug-count relentlessly rose instead of fell. I just don't "get" open-source for this exact reason. But on the other hand, the general concept of task-focused-UI is doubtless a great idea, so I wonder why the apparent Total Silence on this concept, in the Visual Studio world.
pg--az
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Like I say, if you paste (( MyLyn 2.2 Webinar )) into Google, the 2nd hit down is the actual webinar at "Eclipse Live". I am a religious user of McAfee Site Advisor, which I use with FireFox. If you had SiteAdvisor loaded, then you would see the reassuring green dot beside the eclipse.org-link. This is why I prefer to phrase links in terms of Google queries, it's the way *I* like to be referred to things. Anyway MyLyn is the Eclipse incarnation of Mik Kersten's Ph.D Thesis "Taskscapes: a topographical model of task context", which in the desktop incarnation at tasktop.com promises to be perhaps revolutionary, it is still in Beta. One problem with Kersten's Open-Source efforts is the ridiculous number of open bugs which you will get a feel for by watching the webinar. Certainly a possibility is that the "break-to-fix-ratio" might actually be exceeding 1.00, that is, fumbling nitwits cause more damage that their ill-considered patches solve. This was definitely the case with IBM's OS-360, past a certain point the known-bug-count relentlessly rose instead of fell. I just don't "get" open-source for this exact reason. But on the other hand, the general concept of task-focused-UI is doubtless a great idea, so I wonder why the apparent Total Silence on this concept, in the Visual Studio world.
pg--az
Looks rather interesting. I have not seen anything like it in VS, though.
"Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon