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• Agile Project Management Across Organizational Boundaries with JIRA and VersionOne

  January 22, 2008 at 12:18 am / screencasts, Video

  In this screencast Jerry Odenwelder walks us through the issue tracking integration between Atlassian's JIRA and VersionOne. VersionOne is a hosted, Agile project management tool for development teams. The idea of the integration is to take defects, bugs, requests, and other "issues" from JIRA and tightly integrate them into the Agile project management workflow provided by VersionOne. We start out by describing the Agile project management approach of bundling up issues into short "sprints" that development and QA teams work [...]

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• Eclipse EMF Demo – A complete modeling platform for Java

  July 19, 2007 at 11:41 am / screencasts

  Coté talks with Ed Merks about the Eclipse Modeling Framework project, or EMF. Ed gives us a quick overview of the framework and new features and then walks us through designing a model in EMF, generating code, and then round-tripping back and forth. Watching the demo you can see how EMF could be used to create data models at the begining of a project and then maintain them throughout. There is a larger version of the video available, as well [...]

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• Eclipse Data Tools Platform (DTP) Demo

  July 12, 2007 at 1:25 pm / screencasts

  Cote talks with John Graham about the newest version of the Eclipse Data Tools Platform, or DTP, in Eclipse Europa. John shows us how to use DTP as database navigator, goes over the platform offerings for establishing connections and extracting models for various data sources, and then shows us some helpful DbUnit integration that DTP provides. There’s a larger Flash version available, as well as a larger video.

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• Europa Mylyn Demo – Task Management and Context Filtering for Teams

  July 5, 2007 at 4:23 pm / Interviews, screencasts, Video

  Coté talks with Mik Kersten of the Eclipse Mylyn team about the most recent version of Mylyn (formally Mylar) in Eclipse Europa. In a brief video segment, Mik gives us a quick overview of Mylyn’s goals as a task and “task context” plugin to Eclipse. Mylyn integrates with issue and task tracking applications like BugZilla, trac, and Rally, giving Eclipse users a normalized and team-driven GUI for task management. Tightly-linked to tasks is the idea of creating and managing “task [...]

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• Reporting with Eclipse Europa BIRT

  June 26, 2007 at 6:52 pm / Interviews, screencasts, Video

  Cote talks with Virgil Dodson, Java Reporting Evangelist at Actuate about the new features in Eclipse BIRT. BIRT is an Eclipse project that allows you to connect to various data sources, build reports with those sources, and the UIs needed for your end-users to view those reports. After a brief chat on the topic of BIRT and reporting in general, Virgil gives us a demo of the latest features in the upcoming BIRT 2.2.0 release. For a larger version, check [...]

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• OSGi on the Server-side: Eclipse Europa Equinox Demo

  June 22, 2007 at 1:27 pm / screencasts, Video

  In this screencast, Coté talks with Eclipse Equinox project lead Jeff McAffer about the new version of the Eclipse Equinox OSGi framework in Eclipse Europa. We see a demo of the the new server-side capabilities in Equinox and the development model used. The notion of “modules” and “components” is fast becoming an important topic in the Java world so it’s interesting to see the Eclipse platform’s framework moving from the desktop to the server. A larger version of the MP4 [...]

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• Sun Connection Inventory Channel Demo

  June 15, 2007 at 9:51 am / screencasts, Video

  In this episode, Coté talks with Oren Teich about the newly announced Sun Connection Inventory Channel, a free, hosted way to catelog IT assets. We then get a demo of using the Inventory Channel. Disclaimer: Sun is a client.

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