Mik Kersten
CEO of Tasktop, Creator of the Eclipse Mylyn Project
Dr. Mik Kersten is the CEO of Tasktop Technologies, creator of the Eclipse Mylyn open source project and inventor of the task-focused interface. As a research scientist at Xerox PARC, Mik implemented the first aspect-oriented programming tools for AspectJ. He created Mylyn and the task-focused interface during his PhD in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Mik has been an Eclipse committer since 2002, is an elected member of the Eclipse Board of Directors and serves on the Eclipse Architecture Council. Mik's thought leadership on task-focused collaboration makes him a popular speaker at software conferences, and he was voted a JavaOne Rock Star speaker in 2008 and 2009. He enjoys building tools that offload our brains and make it easier to get creative work done. Follow @mik_kersten on Twitter.
Presentations
Special Topic: Application Lifecycle & Agile
Join Mik Kersten, the CEO of Tasktop Technologies and creator of the Eclipse Mylyn project, for this discussion and demonstration session of how recent the latest Agile and ALM tools can make it dramatically easier to develop, deploy, and evolve your Spring-powered applications. This session will cover new choices for source code repositories for collaborative and social programming, new developments in issue tracking systems, and practical considerations for integrated build and integration testing. Demonstrations will feature a range of best-of-breed Agile and ALM technologies, including the latest open source tools such as Mylyn, Git and Hudson. This session will give you an overview of the state-of-the art for managing the evolution of your code evolve from concept, through Scrum planning, then into development, testing and production.
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