Mik Kersten is the president and CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project, committer on the AspectJ projects, and member of the Eclipse Architecture Council. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC, he created the first aspect-oriented programming tool support and implemented AspectJ plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, Visual Studio, and Emacs. He created Mylyn and the Task-Focused UI technology while completing his PhD in computer science at the University of British Columbia. Mik's passion is building tools that make it more natural and less stressful to work on very large systems.
As developers, we're familiar with the endless pains that result from maintaining overly complex systems. Some complexity is accidental, so we continually strive to remove its overhead from our application. The latest crop of frameworks and dynamic languages has demonstrated just how f...Oct. 6, 2007 08:45 AM EDT Reads: 19,431
