SQL Developer Skills: Getting Started with Databases and More David Bolton, October 20, 2022 11 min read Thousands of organizations need technology professionals who have mastered Structured Query Language (SQL). Those with...
Assembly Language: Is It Useful? Can You Still Get a Job with It? David Bolton, September 14, 2022 6 min read There’s a pervasive myth that being able to program in assembly language makes you a master programmer with...
5 Must-Have Windows Desktop Development Tools David Bolton, August 30, 2022 7 min read If you develop desktop software, you most likely have a favorite set of software tools to help you get things done....
Rust: 5 Reasons to Consider Learning This Beloved Language David Bolton, July 20, 2022 7 min read Since the mid-1980s, C and C++ ruled when it came to low-level systems development. Then came Rust, released in 2015...
.NET Framework vs. .NET: What You Need to Know David Bolton, July 6, 2022 7 min read It's been twenty years since the .NET framework first appeared. Since April 2019, it has been frozen at .NET Framework...
Cross-Platform Development: Which Languages and Platforms are Best? David Bolton, May 13, 2022 5 min read Throughout computing history, your system dictated your software development process. In the personal computing eras...
5 Cross-Platform Libraries and Frameworks for Desktop Development David Bolton, March 29, 2022 8 min read Although web and mobile are where you'll find most developer action these days, desktop is not yet dead. Desktop...
Moving a Desktop Application to SaaS: A Cloud Developer Case Study David Bolton, February 2, 2022 8 min read I work in “property tech,” as part of a small team of developers that maintains and enhances a legacy property...
Visual Studio 2022: What’s New with Microsoft’s IDE? David Bolton, December 13, 2021 7 min read Visual Studio 2022, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE), came out in...
5 Ways to Make Your Python Programs Run Faster David Bolton, October 25, 2021 8 min read Although Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages, it isn't without flaws. The biggest...
