5 Reasons to Eliminate Technical Debt at All Costs David Bolton, November 8, 2018 6 min read Technical debt is the entropy and clutter in your codebase. It increases as developers add new code or modify existing...
Exploring Microsoft’s Adoption of Python in Visual Studio David Bolton, September 5, 2018 7 min read You don't usually think of Microsoft and Python in the same sentence. But now, in Visual Studio 2017, you can develop...
5 Reasons to Avoid Hiring Rockstar Developers David Bolton, August 23, 2018 7 min read Software development can be a complicated process. Never mind the complexities of the technology itself; people on the...
Deploying a .NET Application with Docker David Bolton, August 2, 2018 7 min read Containers are a relatively new phenomenon for Windows. Although containers evolved for 20 years in the Linux...
Python 3.7.0: Five New Features to Learn and Explore David Bolton, July 26, 2018 7 min read Given the newness of Python 3.7.0—it was released on June 27—my first attempts to run it on WSL (Windows Subsystem...
Using Linux Natively Within Windows 10: A Quick Guide David Bolton, July 5, 2018 7 min read If you're a Windows developer who dabbles in Linux (as I've done for the past decade), you might have gone down one of...
4 Fast Python Compilers for 2018 David Bolton, June 28, 2018 8 min read Python is a reasonably fast language, but it's not as fast as compiled programs. That's because CPython, the standard...
Will A.I. Take Over Your Programming Job? David Bolton, June 18, 2018 8 min read Back in 1981, I graduated from university and got my first programming job. That year a program was released that would...
Database Types from Hierarchical to Graph: An Industry Breakdown David Bolton, May 30, 2018 9 min read In 1962, the first database, Integrated Data Store (IDS), made its debut. It was a hierarchical type, the only kind...
5 Open-Source SQL IDEs for You to Learn and Explore David Bolton, May 24, 2018 8 min read If you’ve done a lot with SQL, you've probably used some form of SQL IDE to help you complete that work. Yes, it's...
