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...
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...
