Jeff Cogswell

In December, I reviewed the new Visual Studio 2012, and I briefly mentioned that it includes a new version of Microsoft LightSwitch. LightSwitch first came on the scene two years ago, and although I felt it had a certain amount of promise, I had serious reservations about suggesting it would take off in sales. Essentially […]

Shifting From Silverlight to HTML 5 When you create a new application, you can choose between the Silverlight-based applications or HTML5 applications. In either case, you can use either C# or Visual Basic. Connecting to Databases Once your application starts, you can either connect to an existing database or design your own database. Here we’re […]

Kognitio has managed to create an affordable cloud-based analytical platform that customers can deploy within a preconfigured Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) image that contains everything they need to get started without having to run post-installation shell scripts. Kognitio Cloud is a specially built version of the Kognitio Analytical Platform that runs as a node […]

Getting Started To get started, you search the AWS marketplace for Kognitio. Here is the AWS Marketplace page in the Web browser. Easy Installation Installation is easy as starting the wizard for the Amazon Machine Image on the marketplace. Setting Up a Server I wanted a bigger server, so I increased it to an M1 […]

Visual Studio 2012 includes many new features, the biggest of which focus on development specifically for the new Windows 8 interface (previously known as “Metro”). I’ve been using Visual Studio since its original form with Visual C++ 1.0 almost 20 years ago. This review will point out the new features, as well as a look […]

Design and Build User Interfaces With Blend The edition of Blend in Visual Studio 2012 includes two project types, both for Windows Store. One is HTML and the other is XAML. The HTML type is limited to the JavaScript language, whereas XAML allows you to code in C#, Visual Basic or Microsoft’s Managed C++. Building […]

In January 2010, I reviewed the new language called Google Go for eWEEK. In that review, I focused mainly on the syntax of the language. Since then, the language has changed and evolved, culminating (finally) this year with Release 1.0 on March 28 and release 1.0.3 Sept. 24. And over the past few months there […]

Go Looks Like Another C The Go language looks like another C-based language, but from a programming perspective, it feels and works more like a modern dynamic language. Advanced Features Go includes a large number of external packages with features such as compression, cryptography, image handling, Web development and operating systems support. Additional Support Recently […]

Viewing the Infrastructure LifeTime shows you a graphic view of your entire infrastructure. Here we have two deployments: a development system and the final production system. Tagging Applications When you’re ready to deploy from development to production, you tag the applications you’re ready to deploy, and then click to deploy. Informing the User of Problems […]

OutSystems recently released version 7.0 of its Agile Platform product, which includes a new feature set called LifeTime. LifeTime is an application lifecycle manager that integrates with Agile Platform, giving you a visual interface into all the applications and servers. It includes the ability to deploy code to different servers through a drag-and-drop interface, while […]

Cloudant Signup Procedure Is Easy Cloudant’s signup procedure is a simple form that grants you immediate access to your new databases. One of the options is “Lagoon,” which is their Azure installation. Create Databases From the Cloudant Website Although you can use code to create and manage your databases, you can also do so through […]

Database provider Cloudant Inc. created the highly available, fault-tolerant, clustered version of CouchDB, called BigCouch-which is now available on Windows Azure. Tests at eWEEK Labs show that the new offering is on par with Cloudant’s data layer service that is hosted on Softlayer and other cloud providers. Overall, users will find very little performance difference, […]