Jeff Cogswell

Labs Gallery: NetBeans 6.7 IDE Provides Inroad to Sun’s Project Kenai No Title The NetBeans IDE has many new features, and one of the most interesting is integration with the Project Kenai collaboration site. No Title Project Kenai includes its own Website, which you can use by itself or from within the IDE. If you […]

10 Reasons We Are Excited About Google Chrome OS by Jeff Cogswell The Web It’s built by a company that practically defined the Internet as we know it today. While many other companies have been involved in creating and defining the Web, Google is still at the top in innovation and has made it clear […]

We just learned that Google has decided to enter the operating system business. Microsoft, as of this writing, has not commented. I can only wonder, however, what thoughts are going through the heads of the people at Microsoft. (I imagine there’s a certain amount of laughter going on.) In the software business, one problem that […]

eWEEK Labs Steps Through MonoDevelop 2.0 by Jeff Cogswell Full-Featured IDE MonoDevelop 2.0 is a full-featured IDE that rivals the best. Visual Studio programmers will feel quite at home. New Project The New Project dialog box includes several project types, including Gtk# 2.0 projects. Project Options When you select a Gtk# 2.0 project, you have […]

The Mono Project recently released Version 2.0 of MonoDevelop, a full IDE for developing C# programs under the Mono runtime. The short story is that if you’ve worked with Microsoft Visual Studio, you will see many similarities in MonoDevelop and will feel quite comfortable in the Mono environment. If you’re new to MonoDevelop and haven’t […]

Over the years, I’ve spent a great deal of time working with various CMS packages on multiple levels–as a basic user, as a developer trying to extend them and as an administrator doing installation and configuration. I’ve seen just what a pain they can be. And so I was immediately intrigued when I saw these […]

Concrete5 CMS Provides Useful Features for Web Developers Installation Installing Concrete5 is as simple as filling out form, specifying the information you’d expect: name of site, database information, and so on. Default User Name and Password Concrete5 creates a default administrator user name and password for you. Default Pages After installation, your site includes several […]

ECMAScript 5 was recently released, a full 10 years after the previous version of the language came out. After all this time, the updates are not groundbreaking, but they are useful. ECMAScript, which most people call JavaScript, is primarily used in Web browsers. (JavaScript is a trademarked name owned by Sun, and is just one […]

With the news of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun Microsystems, many MySQL shops are likely more than a little worried about what this will mean for the open-source database in the long term. While there is certainly no way to know what upper management at Oracle is planning, we can at least speculate-factoring in sound business […]

MoMA Eases Migration of .NET Programs to Mono, eWEEK Labs Finds No Title The MoMA program opens with an explanation of how to use it. No Title The buttons on the right let you choose the binary files. I chose several, including some that aren’t assemblies. This prompted a message telling me that the binaries […]

When Microsoft originally released its .NET run-time and framework, programming for Windows became much easier. You got to choose from some favorite languages (C++, a Java-similar language called C# and Visual Basic), but by choosing .NET you were effectively locking yourself into the Windows platform. If you were thinking about portability, you had to look […]

What would a possible IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems mean to the database software these two companies provide? eWEEK Labs has looked at the overall picture, and here I drill down into the database space. Last year, Sun acquired MySQL, which is the maker of the open-source database MySQL. Although involved in the open-source PostgreSQL […]