Category: Coding

In the physical world, we’re overloaded with ways to identity ourselves.  We have identity cards, driving licenses, passports, health insurance cards and a myriad of other forms of identification …

I once met a project manager who really didn’t enjoy the testing phase of a project. He was one of those time driven managers where milestones and targets were …

One of the most useful protocols to understand especially when troubleshooting networks is that of the address resolution protocol. This is used to map internet addresses to hardware addresses …

If you’ve ever worked on a large IT project which has it’s own testing department, then you know it can be quite time consuming work. What’s worse you can …

Coding sports games is not as simple as it sounds at least not to produce a really professional product. The easiest tasks involve management games like Football Manager which …

Absolutely every single interface or device in the internet must have a unique internet address.  These are probably more commonly known as an IP address.    The addresses consist …

SGML and XML are both languages that are used for defining markup languages. More specifically, they are metalanguage formalisms that facilitate the definition of descriptive markup languages for the …

There is one factor which is crucial when we are considering capacity planning for a proxy server and that is the ‘peak load’.  This point will vary greatly between …

There’s little point setting up some complicated and expensive NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) if you don’t analyse the information it provides.  One of then most popular and useful …

One of the most difficult questions that has to be answered in implementing anything new in an IT infrastructure is what is the risk.  It doesn’t matter if it’s …