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...
The State of Structured Query Language (SQL) in 2019 David Bolton, February 11, 2019 6 min read In 1974, Abba won the Eurovision song contest with “Waterloo.” That same year saw the birth of Structured Query...
XML vs. JSON: What’s the Difference for Developers? David Bolton, January 25, 2019 7 min read Programming is not just about writing code. If you have a few years of programming experience under your belt, you'll...
Blast from the Past: Retrieving Old Game Source Code David Bolton, January 17, 2019 8 min read Way back in 1985, I created games on the ZX Spectrum/Timex and CBM-64. A friend and I set up a small software house,...
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...
