Assembly Language: Is It Useful? Can You Still Get a Job with It? David Bolton, September 14, 2022 6 min read There’s a pervasive myth that being able to program in assembly language makes you a master programmer with...
5 Must-Have Windows Desktop Development Tools David Bolton, August 30, 2022 7 min read If you develop desktop software, you most likely have a favorite set of software tools to help you get things done....
Rust: 5 Reasons to Consider Learning This Beloved Language David Bolton, July 20, 2022 7 min read Since the mid-1980s, C and C++ ruled when it came to low-level systems development. Then came Rust, released in 2015...
.NET Framework vs. .NET: What You Need to Know David Bolton, July 6, 2022 7 min read It's been twenty years since the .NET framework first appeared. Since April 2019, it has been frozen at .NET Framework...
Cross-Platform Development: Which Languages and Platforms are Best? David Bolton, May 13, 2022 5 min read Throughout computing history, your system dictated your software development process. In the personal computing eras...
5 Cross-Platform Libraries and Frameworks for Desktop Development David Bolton, March 29, 2022 8 min read Although web and mobile are where you'll find most developer action these days, desktop is not yet dead. Desktop...
Moving a Desktop Application to SaaS: A Cloud Developer Case Study David Bolton, February 2, 2022 8 min read I work in “property tech,” as part of a small team of developers that maintains and enhances a legacy property...
Visual Studio 2022: What’s New with Microsoft’s IDE? David Bolton, December 13, 2021 7 min read Visual Studio 2022, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE), came out in...
5 Ways to Make Your Python Programs Run Faster David Bolton, October 25, 2021 8 min read Although Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages, it isn't without flaws. The biggest...
3 Web Programming Technologies That Offer Alternatives to JavaScript David Bolton, August 31, 2021 8 min read JavaScript is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Not only does it usually place highly on lists...
