5 Python Features That You May Not Be Familiar With David Bolton, June 26, 2020 6 min read Python, for all its ease of learning, has some pockets of real complexity. If you’ve ever read through the...
Visual Studio Code and Python: Getting Started David Bolton, June 1, 2020 6 min read Four years ago, Microsoft released an open-source cross-platform IDE called Visual Studio Code that became very...
Kotlin in 2020: ‘A Better Java’ Continues to Mature David Bolton, March 4, 2020 6 min read Kotlin is an open-source programming language that’s often pitched as a Java replacement; it’s also a “first...
Is Desktop Development Dead? Or Still Worth It? David Bolton, March 4, 2020 6 min read I started my first programming job in October 1981, developing desktop software on Apple II and Act Sirius. For the...
New Python Programmer? Learn These Concepts First. David Bolton, February 17, 2020 7 min read As a novice Python developer, the world is your oyster with regards to the type of applications that you can create....
Running Android on PC: A Developer’s Overview David Bolton, December 19, 2019 6 min read As a developer, I occasionally have to test software on non-PC platforms. Naturally, it's easier if this testing takes...
.NET Core 3.0: A Close Look for Developers David Bolton, December 13, 2019 8 min read Before we plunge into .NET Core, it's worth revisiting some of .NET's dense, tangled history. Twenty years ago,...
C++ and C: How These Languages are Diverging David Bolton, October 29, 2019 7 min read C++ started life as “C with Classes” back in the 1980s, though it was quickly renamed “C++.” For much of the...
4 Reasons to Employ Older Developers David Bolton, October 23, 2019 6 min read Despite legislation making it overtly illegal, ageism persists in the technology industry. The fear is particularly...
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...
