Articles by David Bolton

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  Exploring Microsoft's Adoption of Python in Visual Studio

  You don't usually think of Microsoft and Python in the same sentence. But now, in Visual Studio 2017, you can develop applications in Python, making Visual Studio probably the best Python IDE aro…
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  The Risks of Hiring Rockstar Developers for a Team

  Software development can be a complicated process. Never mind the complexities of the technology itself; people on the team need to work together well, and that’s not always easy. Fortunately, hi…
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  5 Reasons to Avoid Hiring Rockstar Developers

  Software development can be a complicated process. Never mind the complexities of the technology itself; people on the team need to work together well, and that’s not always easy. Fortunately, hi…
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  Deploying a .NET Application with Docker

  Containers are a relatively new phenomenon for Windows. Although containers evolved for 20 years in the Linux ecosystem, they really took off a few years ago with the arrival of Docker. Now, sysa…
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  Python 3.7.0: Five New Features to Learn and Explore

  Given the newness of Python 3.7.0—it was released on June 27—my first attempts to run it on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) Ubuntu didn't quite go as planned. There's no Debian or Ubuntu distri…
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  Using Linux Natively Within Windows 10: A Quick Guide

  If you're a Windows developer who dabbles in Linux (as I've done for the past decade), you might have gone down one of the following paths: Install Linux on an old Windows PC, or dual-boot on the…
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  4 Fast Python Compilers for Better Performance

  Python is a reasonably fast language, but it's not as fast as compiled programs. That's because CPython, the standard implementation, is interpreted. To be more precise, your Python code is compi…
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  Will A.I. Take Over Your Programming Job?

  Back in 1981, I graduated from university and got my first programming job. That year a program was released that would supposedly bring about the end of human programming. Called The Last One, i…
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  Database Types from Hierarchical to Graph: An Industry Breakdown

  In 1962, the first database, Integrated Data Store (IDS), made its debut. It was a hierarchical type, the only kind available at that time. It wasn't until the early 1970s that relational databas…
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  5 Open-Source SQL IDEs for You to Learn and Explore

  If you’ve done a lot with SQL, you've probably used some form of SQL IDE to help you complete that work. Yes, it's possible to do everything in SQL from the command line; but creating or even mai…