Jeff Cogswell

Palm‘s new software development kit for its WebOS, Mojo, includes the complete library for developing WebOS applications, as well an emulator that runs under Sun VirtualBox. The SDK also includes a plug-in for Eclipse so you can do all your development right within the Eclipse SDK. Like many Eclipse plug-ins, the Mojo plug-in is easy […]

Commodore 64: A Look Back at a Geek’s First PC No Title Before I owned a Commodore 64, my parents enrolled me in an after-school program that would start it all: A BASIC programming course on the PET computer. PET, which was made by Commodore, was an acronym for Personal Electronic Transactor. Of course, to […]

LABS GALLERY: Amazon’s AWS Toolkit Provides Total Eclipse Integration Installation As is always the case with Eclipse, installation of the plug-in couldn’t be easier. In Eclipse, I clicked Help -> Install New Software to bring up this dialog box. I then filled in the Work With box with “http://aws.amazon.com/eclipse”. Items to Be Installed Eclipse located […]

I’ve done a fair amount of tinkering with cloud programming during the past couple of years. With cloud programming, you can easily deploy a Web application to a cluster of servers that will be distributed and managed with the help of the cloud infrastructure. But one of the hard parts is developing the software on […]

A Federal judge in Texas handed down a ruling Aug. 11 barring Microsoft from continuing to sell and support its Microsoft Word software on the grounds that it violates a patent owned by a company called i4i. But the ruling has some odd things in it that have already caused a good bit of debate […]

The recent 3.5 release of Eclipse, code-named Galileo, brings loads of new features that will help developers become even more productive In this review, I evaluate the new Eclipse IDE (integrated development environment), but there have been changes made to the entire Eclipse platform, as well. During my tests of the IDE, I did not […]

LABS GALLERY: Galileo Release of Eclipse Offers a Galaxy of New Features by Jeff Cogswell Eclipse Evolution Eclipse has come a long way since its early days. The interface looks similar to the way it always has, but it’s packed with far more features than before. Online Help Even the online help interface has improved, […]

LABS GALLERY: Intel Parallel Studio Helps Make the Most of Multiple Cores Add-ins Intel Parallel Studio installs right into Microsoft Visual Studio as a set of add-ins that include menu items and tool bars to assist in parallel coding. Parallel Inspector The Parallel Inspector tool lets you look for deadlocks, data races and other common […]

Parallel programming is not easy. I remember back in my computer science college courses years ago studying the problems involved in writing algorithms that make use of parallel processors. This was in the late 1980s, when parallel programming was basically understood but the tools to accomplish it were lacking. Multiprocessor computers were rare back then, […]

The latest version of the NetBeans IDE is a 0.7 release, but it includes so many new features it could rightfully receive a full version increment. What may be the biggest improvement is full integration with Project Kenai, a site Sun built for open-source collaboration, and that’s what this review will focus on. The Project […]