SAFE Network: Can Cryptocurrency Power a Secure Network? David Bolton, March 15, 2018 8 min read In the beginning, there was the Advanced Research Projects Administration (ARPANET), a packet-switching network started...
5 Ways to Catch and Handle Errors in Desktop and Web Apps David Bolton, March 5, 2018 9 min read It’s a sad fact of life that, no matter how skilled the programmers writing it, all code has errors (at least...
Programmers, Get Familiar with ‘Pythonic’ Python David Bolton, February 9, 2018 8 min read Now in its 26th year (and still going strong in terms of popularity), Python stands out for its distinctive syntax...
4 Problems with Processor Thread Programming David Bolton, February 7, 2018 11 min read Threads are a useful way to get more out of your CPU. Technically known as a “thread of execution,” a thread is the...
Managing SQL Server in Code: A Brief Walkthrough David Bolton, February 5, 2018 10 min read Microsoft's flagship relational database, SQL Server, is now 28 years old and still going strong. It comes with a...
A Quick Guide to Denormalizing Databases David Bolton, January 10, 2018 11 min read A relational database stores data in multiple tables. Each table has columns describing the type of information,...
5 XML Alternatives to Consider in 2018 David Bolton, January 5, 2018 6 min read It’s been two decades since Extensible Markup Language (XML), a markup language for encoding documents, made its...
Add Two-Factor Authentication to Your Apps David Bolton, December 8, 2017 7 min read Recent years have seen repeated website hacks, with hackers capturing many user details. Even a tech-savvy firm...
5 Reasons Java Users Should Consider Kotlin David Bolton, December 7, 2017 9 min read Although it’s been six years since Kotlin first appeared, the programming language recently gained momentum when...
Is Flat Design Actually Awful? David Bolton, October 20, 2017 5 min read Since 2007, the rise of mobile operating systems (and mobile apps) has changed how tech companies approach design....
