Articles by David Bolton
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Blocking Queues Beat Lists in Multithreaded Code
In .NET, it's quite common to store data in a generic List – a Listwhere T is some type such as an int or a class. In addition to its standard uses, a generic list can be implemented as a gen… -
Watson Becomes Available for App Developers
Watson, the IBM supercomputer that won $1 million playing Jeopardy in 2011, is now becoming available to app developers. The system that was built for Jeopardy was not your everyday PC. With 2,88… -
Coding Challenge: Best Have a Card Up Your Sleeve
Our newest coding challenge runs through January, ending on Jan. 31, 2014, so you should have plenty of time for it. It's about a card game called Sevens. The game is for three to seven players.… -
Coding Challenge Results: The Most Factorially Fluent
Thank you to everybody who entered our first Coding Challenge: Prove Your Factorial Fluency. We received a total of 61 entries, from 58 individuals -- three players submitted extra entries in dif… -
Visual Studio 2013 Released - Worth Upgrading?
Visual Studio, Microsoft's flagship development tool and considered the best IDE around, has had an overhaul, a new coat of polish and some new features added. But is it worth upgrading, when eve… -
Is TrueCrypt Truly Secure?
Written in C++, with C and some assembler, TrueCrypt is an open source tool for creating encrypted disk volumes. The volumes it creates can be stored on an external disk, as a partition of a disk… -
Improve Your Job Search With a Personal Project
More and more, hiring managers tell us that they want to hire candidates who work on personal projects outside of their jobs. They say the first place they look up a potential candidate is on Git… -
Creating a Multi-Player Game? Watch the Money
Based in Auckland, New Zealand, indie developer David Colquohun started running his MMORTS game Ironfell in 2012. In August 2013, he had to close it down because it was losing too much money. The… -
Introduction to Rx - Reactive Extensions
Thirty years ago life was much simpler for desktop developers. Processors only had one core, GUIs, mice and event driven programming didn't exist outside universities and UIs were simple affairs… -
Three Java IDEs Compared
As a Java developer you are most likely to be familiar with Eclipse, but it's not the only game in town. Other options to consider include NetBeans and Intellij IDEA. Which one’s the best? Here’s…