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Proxies used to be relatively straightforward. They used to sit in the IT server room, pretty much forgotten for the majority of time. Not because they weren’t used much, quite the opposite. Most proxies are among the busiest servers in an organisation and are rarely idle. This is because all web traffic both outbound and…

How does one go about creating even a rough model? This depends upon what you’re modelling, but in many cases there’ll be existing examples of the kind of information you wish to model in the form of existing documents or data. An analysis of the structure of existing examples will help you to create and…

One of the aspects of using SGML or XML that many new to the technology find off-putting is the up-front cost involved in determine how you’re going to use it. If you’d decided to use a different technology – say, standard word processing, desktop publishing, spreadsheet or even a simple database application – the set-up…

Many people say that you will get better at programming when you get used to Regular Expression. The problem is that it’s difficult to learn from a book and it is still a complex subject to explore and to master. But if you can’t hide from it, especially when you need to deal with .htaccess…

We’ve got lots of explanations on this site about proxies and the various options you’ve got about using commercial ones or even free versions you can find online.  But often to help this search it’s best to take a step back and ensure you really know what you’re looking for in a proxy server.  The…

Like many social media platforms, there’s a good chance that many interactions you have on Instagram are not with other people but simply automated software otherwise known as Bots.  Now these programs are not exactly well liked in Instagram, indeed most platforms spend a load of money detecting and blocking them for obvious reasons.  …

Sometimes you need to look back in archives to find the information you want especially when using tools which might not be as popular today.  Here’s an article saved from the archives on a component called Cport. CPort is a Delphi component created by Dejan Crnila. it provide interfaces for Delphi programmers to use the…

CPort is a Delphi component created by Dejan Crnila. it provide interfaces for Delphi programmers to use the serial communication ports. If you need to utilize serial modem or any other serial communication devices in your Delphi application, you should use this component. It’s obviously doesn’t take much to install and use a modem however…

Can technology make a better life for us all? Does improving and developing new systems, writing new code really bring a positive improvement to our lives. It seems a trite argument, of course technology is good – but sometimes it’s difficult to balance the improvements against the problems it causes. Don’t get me wrong: (transparently)…

Wireless is great, it allows you to access your internet connection from anywhere. For years people had to sit within a cable length of their modem, but the onset of available Wifi options freed us from that restriction.  There are caveats of course, one of the major ones is security – your wireless signals are not…