Articles by David Bolton

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  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…
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  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…
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  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…
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  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…
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  3 Web Programming Technologies That Offer Alternatives to JavaScript

  JavaScript is one of the world’s most popular programming languages. Not only does it usually place highly on lists of popular programming languages produced by RedMonk, Stack Overflow, TIOBE, an…
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  Flutter: What You Need to Know About Cross-Platform Development

  Mobile app developers often find themselves squeezed for resources. They want to produce great work, but they struggle to find the time and money. Given those constraints, many turn to cross-plat…
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  State of C++ in 2021: A Programming Language Grows Stronger

  General-purpose programming language C++ is roughly 37 years old, its first commercial implementation having appeared back in 1985. From the start, the language enjoyed massive uptake among softw…
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  Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile: A Worthy Cross-Platform Development Kit?

  The most obvious benefit of cross-platform mobile development: cost savings. Simply put, using the same tools to simultaneously build an app for iOS and Android will save you time and money over…
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  Python Programming Online: 5 Websites to Check Out

  If you’re learning Python, you want a quick and easy way to figure out what the language can do. And what better way than simply opening your browser and logging into a website? In case you didn’…
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  Qore: A New Programming Language Worth a Look

  New programming languages are created all the time. Over the past 10 years alone, we've seen the emergence of Rust, Dart, Kotlin, Elixir, Red, Julia, TypeScript and Swift—and those are just the b…