State of C Programming Language in 2019 David Bolton, January 14, 2019 6 min read In four years’ time, C will reach its 50th birthday, an anniversary also shared with PL/M and Prolog. Unlike those...
5 Programming Languages You May Not Have Heard Of David Bolton, December 31, 2018 8 min read Before the Web became ubiquitous, it was difficult to promote a new programming language. The most popular ones were...
Examining Undefined Behavior in C++ Programming David Bolton, December 6, 2018 13 min read Programming languages such as C and C++ have quirks and undefined behavior. These memory safety violations, integer...
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...
