No big news in this post, yet I stumbled upon an old post @ Internet Duct Tape (thanks to this bi-monthly digest) about time tracking for programmers, and some task management tools reviews.
The post is quite interesting, but I just noticed the tools list lacks Mylyn, an Eclipse plug-in (formerly known as Mylar) I personally started using not so long ago, but which has gained popularity among developers, and which is part of the Eclipse Europa release. For those of you who already know the Mylyn project, this post is absolutely useless… skip it. 
Anyway, if there is anybody out there who does not know about it …
“Mylyn is the Task-Focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA.
Once your tasks are integrated, Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand, and uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what’s related.”
In my opinion it is the right compromise between Excel or XML-ish TODO lists’ simplicity and more complex tools which promise flexibility but you won’t have time to learn by the end of the year.
Of course, assuming Eclipse is your development platform…
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hmmm… quiet interesting…
It is, absolutely. I love the “attach context” feature, it saves a lot of time retrieving source files you were workin on.
That is an old list. The landscape has changed quite a bit since it was published. There are a lot more options available now. Check out Intervals, web-based time tracking and task management built by web programmers. It’s a lot like traditional issue tracking systems, but with integrated time tracking.
http://www.myintervals.com/
Also, check out http://xpunch.com because it’s free.