5 Reasons to Use a VM for Development David Bolton, August 21, 2019 8 min read I started using virtual machines (VMs) on my development PC about six years ago; I was keen to learn Linux, having...
Writing Faster Python with Functions, Lists, and More David Bolton, August 13, 2019 11 min read Python is a great language that’s easy to learn (just keep in mind: "always indent after colons"), but it’s also...
Joys of Raspberry Pi Development: A Walkthrough David Bolton, July 29, 2019 7 min read My first computer, an Amstrad PC1512 that I bought new in 1989, cost $1,200 (or roughly $2,460 in 2019 dollars). It...
Eclipse IDE: Getting Started, Plugins, and More David Bolton, July 26, 2019 7 min read With the recent quarterly release of the Eclipse IDE, it’s a good time to see how both the IDE and the larger...
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...
