A Look Inside Windows Containers David Bolton, June 9, 2016 6 min read Containers are a clever idea that originated in the Linux arena around 16 years ago. They gained traction at a very...
A Case Study in Dealing with Ransomware David Bolton, June 7, 2016 8 min read A particularly insidious type of malware is ransomware, which is secretly installed on your PC and locks the system...
Learning About Data Structures in Swift David Bolton, May 12, 2016 11 min read Swift is an increasingly popular language for programming iOS devices, supported on Linux in addition to Mac OS X. A...
Python Developers: PyPI Makes Life Easier David Bolton, May 4, 2016 5 min read Python’s major strength lies in its ecosystem. There’s the community, the quality of documentation, the PEPs...
The State of Linux in 2016 David Bolton, April 6, 2016 5 min read As side projects go, few have succeeded quite as spectacularly as Linus Torvald’s attempt to create a new, free...
How Does Visual Studio Code for Linux Work? David Bolton, April 5, 2016 7 min read As names go, Visual Studio Code (VSC) is perhaps a little misleading. Visual Studio is a cross-platform integrated...
Using Frameworks to Simplify JavaScript David Bolton, March 17, 2016 5 min read Have you ever gone to a restaurant and had trouble selecting a dish because there were too many to choose from? The...
Web Development in Python and web2py David Bolton, March 8, 2016 6 min read PHP is the traditional server language for developing Websites. It’s free and ubiquitous, undergirding hundreds of...
Why It’s Worth Learning the R Language David Bolton, February 11, 2016 7 min read If you’re a developer, chances are good you’ve heard about the programming language R, used for statistical...
5 Reasons to Use C++ for Android Development David Bolton, February 3, 2016 7 min read Although Apple and Google champion specific programming languages for mobile development (Objective-C/Swift for...
