Jeff Cogswell is the author of Designing Highly Useable Software (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0782143016) among other books and is the owner/operator of CogsMedia Training and Consulting.Currently Jeff is a senior editor with Ziff Davis Enterprise. Prior to joining Ziff, he spent about 15 years as a software engineer, working on Windows and Unix systems, mastering C++, PHP, and ASP.NET development. He has written over a dozen books.
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, […]
Codice Softwares 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 dont 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 […]