Mylar - My New Favorite Eclipse Plug-in
If you're like me and you have about 20 different plates of code spinning at the same time, you might find Mylar to be a valuable addition to your Eclipse environment. Basically, it allows you to arrange your work by task and it tracks what you do while you're working on that task. So what? Well, then it's able to use that information to filter a lot of the views, so things like the Package Explorer only show the you classes that are relevant to your current task. It also stores the state of the editors, so when you switch back into a task you can easily remember where you left off.
I've been using Mylar for a couple of weeks and it's changed the way I work. I really like it. Give it a try if you're a crazed multi-tasking coder.
Comments
Eric,
I agree with you there! Mylar actually makes it possible for me to deal with more than one bug or customer support session at a time, "pausing" things when I get stuck and allowing me to switch to something productive as well as keeping the "cruft" out of the workspace.
Without it, my Eclipse debug/fix sessions would be a lot less productive.
Posted by: Mark Matthews | October 12, 2006 08:54 AM