Articles by Jeffrey Cogswell

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  Integrating Your App With Amazon Web Services S3

  If you can write software for the cloud, you’re one step ahead of other job hunters. In particular, one area you want to know about is Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s huge and sophisticated, yet…
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  The Windows Flaw That Cracks Amazon Web Services

  When Flint, Michigan started losing its economic battle a couple decades ago, it quickly deteriorated into a town filled with crime. Living in Michigan at the time, I heard plenty of weird and te…
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  How to Build a Windows 8 App - Part I

  Over the past couple of years, Microsoft has been building up its own app store, just as Apple and Google have done. It supports both Windows Phone as well as the desktop operating system, Window…
• CouchDB: Roll Your Own, Or Go With a Service?

  When it comes to implementing a CouchDB installation, do you roll your own, or go with a service that provides a hosted version of the database? We're going to look at some of the technologies pr…
• Visual Studio vs. Eclipse: A Programmer's Matchup

  [caption id="attachment_10997" align="aligncenter" width="547"] Visual Studio.[/caption] It's time for a big comparison: Visual Studio versus Eclipse. Given the size and complexity of the platfor…
• Java API and Microsoft's .NET API: A Comparison

  The last time we looked at C# vs. Java, we focused on the respective languages’ performance. This time we're going to look at yet another aspect of the languages: the runtime libraries—what exact…
• MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Comparison

  [caption id="attachment_9945" align="aligncenter" width="558"] The MariaDB Blog's performance test.[/caption] MariaDB is a fork of the MySQL source code, split off in the wake of concerns over wh…
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  BlackBerry 10 API: Worth Your Development Time?

  [caption id="attachment_9496" align="aligncenter" width="618"] During the initial rollout, BlackBerry executives showed off various BlackBerry 10 features. But how easy is it to develop for the p…
• Google’s BigQuery vs. Hadoop: A Matchup

  [caption id="attachment_9167" align="aligncenter" width="618"] Google's BigQuery.[/caption] Ready to “Analyze terabytes of data with just a click of a button”? That's the claim Google makes with…
• Radio Shack TRS-80 vs. Commodore 64: Battle of the Titans

  It's no surprise that two of the biggest competitors in the home computing business, Commodore and Radio Shack, decided to both release their latest computers on April 1. Both computers came by A…