Jeff Cogswell

Codice Software€™s Plastic SCM is the Cadillac of software configuration management. The only downside I see to it is the sheer number of features that bring with it a lengthy learning cycle to become acquainted with everything it can do. Plastic SCM 4.1 was released in April 2012, and supports both merge and lock models. […]

Visual Studio, Eclipse Plug-Ins Plastic SCM includes plug-ins for Visual Studio and Eclipse, as well as tools that integrate with Microsoft Office and even the Windows standard Source Code Control (SCC) interface. Visual Studio, Eclipse Plug-Ins Plastic SCM includes plug-ins for Visual Studio and Eclipse, as well as tools that integrate with Microsoft Office and […]

Signing On From within Eclipse, I was able to sign into the server with our email address and the password provided to me when I registered with CloudFoundry.com. Changing the Password The first password was assigned to us by CloudFoundry.com, and I was required to change it the first time I signed in. I was […]

Cloud Foundry is a platform as a service environment for hosting cloud technology and software frameworks. The name Cloud Foundry refers to the software, which is free and open-source and available at CloudFoundry.org, while the site CloudFoundry.com hosts Cloud Foundry software that you can use if you don€™t want to install it locally. As of […]

On April 25, 10gen released the first official MongoDB driver for Node.js. Although this is the first official release, the open-source MongoDB driver for Node.js has been in development and early release for more than two years. The new driver works well and provides full access to nearly all MongoDB features that work within a […]

Download the Driver From GitHub The driver is readily available for download on github, in the mongodb section. Accessing the Documentation The link on the driver page takes you to the official documentation, which includes a complete description of the entire API. Installing the Driver Although you can access the driver, readme and docs through […]

Designer Library The Designer includes a section called the Library from which you can drag some predefined components or your own components, as well as from the Foundry, where you find all the available components. You simply drag the components onto the canvas. Properties When you click on your component, you can open up its […]

The SnapLogic Cloud Integration Platform Spring 12 release adds real-time data-flow analysis, component validation and debug tracing to the data-connection platform. I recommend this tool if you need to do regular data processing and data conversion. eWEEK Labs tests showed that the SnapLogic Spring 12 release proved capable of snapping together on-premise or cloud-based applications […]

When I reviewed the first version of Intel’s Parallel Studio last year, it was already a solid tool for enhancing applications to take advantage of parallel processing across multiple CPU cores. The latest version of the product, which became available following last month’s Intel Developer Conference, has grown better still at enabling developers to make […]

So far this summer there’s been an eclipse for every audience: a big-screen edition for fans of teen horror movies, a total eclipse for Easter Island-based sky watchers and, for those of us with our attention trained on the application development world, a major new platform release from the Eclipse Foundation. Eclipse 3.6, which arrived […]

When Google Apps Scripts was first introduced, about a year ago, it was available only to premium members. Then in January, Google made a majority of the features, such as classes for accessing the contact list, classes for accessing the folders, and classes for manipulating the spreadsheets down to the cell level (like what you […]

Microsoft’s flagship product for developers, Visual Studio 2010, represents a substantial improvement over Visual Studio 2008, with enhancements to the tool’s core functionality and its handling of ASP.NET, C#, C++ and VB. What’s more, along with the VS 2010 release Microsoft has updated .NET Framework to Version 4. All told, I’m very pleased with the […]