PHP: A Quick Introduction to a Complex Language David Bolton, July 8, 2019 7 min read PHP is a quarter-century old… and for the first 20 years, it had no written specification. That’s astounding,...
Speeding Up a SQL Application: a Walkthrough David Bolton, June 18, 2019 11 min read Not so long ago, I had to figure out why an old desktop application, written mainly in Delphi and using a proprietary...
Five ‘Gotchas!’ in a Nightmare Delphi, C++ Project David Bolton, May 30, 2019 11 min read This is a tale of the "fun" I've had creating some software. It involves taking a Microsoft technology...
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...
