Jeff Cogswell

I’ve always been the type of programmer who’s used two editors: one for quick edits and another for larger-scale work. On Windows, my preference for quick edits has been SciTE, which I regard as a sort of “better than Notepad” editor that does just what I need-syntax highlighting, quick open and close times (that’s very […]

About two years ago, Salesforce.com introduced its Force.com offering, through which the software-as-a-service giant invited developers to create cloud-based applications that would run on Salesforce.com’s own infrastructure.I must say that when I first heard about Salesforce.com’s efforts to allow development for the cloud through its own Force.com site, I was a bit skeptical about the […]

Google recently made headlines when it announced the creation of a new language. Called Go, the language has already received a good bit of attention. The language is fully compiled in the vein of C++, but includes many types and constructs that make it more similar to something like Python or JavaScript. (Click here to […]

Techies Give Thanks for 15 Trailblazers Techies Give Thanks for 15 TrailblazersBy Jeff Cogswell The Ancients It may not be a compliment to call somebody “ancient,” but what the heck, these guys are all dead, long dead. But thanks to their work a couple millennia ago, mathematics (and thus computer science) got a good start. […]

LABS GALLERY: Eclipse Plug-in Taps into Force.com by Jeff Cogswell Installation Installing the Eclipse plug-in for Force.com is a simple matter of using the built-in Eclipse software update. Link to Force.com Once installed, the plug-in includes a page that links you to the Force.com developer site. Credentials Creating a new Force.com project requires that you […]

LABS GALLERY: Ext JS 3.0 Sample Apps Show JavaScript Library’s Potential Documentation Ext JS 3.0 comes with extensive documentation. The documentation viewer is itself implemented with Ext JS, providing an excellent ExtJS example. Desktop Look Ext JS lets you create GUIs that look just like many desktop applications, complete with tabs, trees, resizable panes and […]

I feel like I’m about to reveal a deep secret that only a privileged few Web designers know. It’s about a product called Ext JS. In short, if you use Ext JS, your Web development experience will be much happier and far easier. As many Web designers will attest, when it comes to writing client-side […]

My experience with Windows Mobile dates back about a decade, when I purchased my first Windows CE device-a PDA, not a phone. Since then, Microsoft has evolved the Windows CE operating system into what would become Windows Mobile in its various versions. The most recent version, Windows Mobile 6.5, was released in early October. For […]

LABS GALLERY: eWEEK Labs Tests Windows Mobile 6.5 on ATandT Pure Today Screen When the AT&T HTC Pure starts, you’re greeted with a Today screen that is radically different from Windows Mobile 5.0’s and 6.0’s, but not much different from Windows Mobile 6.1’s, which was released last spring on some HTC models. That’s because it […]

LABS GALLERY: Palm’s Mojo WebOS SDK Includes Eclipse Plug-in and Emulator Adding Plug-ins The Eclipse IDE includes an easy interface for adding plug-ins. In the case of the Palm WebOS SDK, called Mojo, you start by adding the palm.com address and follow the wizard’s steps for including the plug-in. Mojo Application After the plug-in is […]