Articles by David Bolton
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SQL Developer Skills: Getting Started with Databases and More
Thousands of organizations need technology professionals who have mastered Structured Query Language (SQL). Those with SQL developer skills can potentially land jobs in a variety of organizations… -
Assembly Language: Is It Useful? Can You Still Get a Job with It?
There’s a pervasive myth that being able to program in assembly language makes you a master programmer with deity-level skills. Yet novice programmers can also pick up the nuances of assembly lan… -
5 Must-Have Windows Desktop Development Tools
If you develop desktop software, you most likely have a favorite set of software tools to help you get things done. I'm going to steer clear of the well-known ones like Excel for preparing data o… -
Rust: 5 Reasons to Consider Learning This Beloved Language
Since the mid-1980s, C and C++ ruled when it came to low-level systems development. Then came Rust, released in 2015 after ten years’ development. Since then, it’s become the most-loved programmi… -
.NET Framework vs. .NET: What You Need to Know
It's been twenty years since the .NET framework first appeared. Since April 2019, it has been frozen at .NET Framework 4.8, and .NET (formerly .NET Core) has replaced it. Starting with .NET Frame… -
Cross-Platform Development: Which Languages and Platforms are Best?
Throughout computing history, your system dictated your software development process. In the personal computing eras of the late 70s and early 80s, if you had a Tandy, you wrote programs for Tand… -
5 Cross-Platform Libraries and Frameworks for Desktop Development
Although web and mobile are where you'll find most developer action these days, desktop is not yet dead. Desktop applications are generally fast (thanks to increasingly impressive hardware) and c… -
Moving a Desktop Application to SaaS: A Cloud Developer Case Study
I work in “property tech,” as part of a small team of developers that maintains and enhances a legacy property application for landlords, realtors and rental agencies. It's over 1.4 million lines… -
Visual Studio 2022: What's New with Microsoft's IDE?
Visual Studio 2022, the latest iteration of Microsoft’s integrated development environment (IDE), came out in November 2021. Compared to Visual Studio 2019, the two are very similar—at first glan… -
5 Ways to Make Your Python Programs Run Faster
Although Python is one of the world’s most popular programming languages, it isn't without flaws. The biggest one? Probably its lack of speed. Python code is compiled to bytecode by CPython and t…