Python Debugging: How to Improve Your Skills David Bolton, May 22, 2019 9 min read When you work with visual programming languages such as Delphi, C#, and VB.NET, you're a bit spoiled for debugging...
Asynchronous Programming in Python: A Walkthrough David Bolton, April 23, 2019 8 min read When we talk about program execution, “asynchronous” means that the program doesn't wait for a particular process...
Programming for .NET Core: A Beginner’s Walkthrough David Bolton, April 11, 2019 8 min read Since its first appearance in 2002, the .NET framework has been a major success for Windows. Along the way, it spawned...
Testing and Automating an Old Code Base David Bolton, March 28, 2019 7 min read At work, I'm part of a team that maintains a software product in the proptech sector. It’s popular (i.e. it sells...
The Fall and Rise of Dart, Google’s ‘JavaScript Killer’ David Bolton, March 27, 2019 9 min read Seven years ago, Google unveiled Dart, a general-purpose programming language. Version 1.0, released in late 2013, was...
Exploring Magic Methods in Python 3 is Vital for Programmers David Bolton, March 4, 2019 9 min read The Python documentation, although generally pretty good, lacks a reference list to so-called “magic methods.” A...
Is WebAssembly the Web GUI Future? David Bolton, February 28, 2019 7 min read The desktop Graphical User Interface (GUI) has been with us since the 1990s, when Windows became mainstream. Out went...
The State of Structured Query Language (SQL) in 2019 David Bolton, February 11, 2019 6 min read In 1974, Abba won the Eurovision song contest with “Waterloo.” That same year saw the birth of Structured Query...
XML vs. JSON: What’s the Difference for Developers? David Bolton, January 25, 2019 7 min read Programming is not just about writing code. If you have a few years of programming experience under your belt, you'll...
Blast from the Past: Retrieving Old Game Source Code David Bolton, January 17, 2019 8 min read Way back in 1985, I created games on the ZX Spectrum/Timex and CBM-64. A friend and I set up a small software house,...
