Creating Mobile Controls with the Mobile Internet Toolkit
The Mobile Internet Toolkit comes prepackaged with a variety of controls that address the most common mobile computing tasks. However, specialized tasks can arise that these generic controls are not...
View ArticleDemystifying Regular Expressions
The ability to perform pattern-matching operations on text is a skill that is highly useful to any programmer. Whether you are creating a routine to validate data entered into a form, performing...
View ArticleError Prevention in VS.NET
With the release of Visual Studio .NET and the structured error-handling capabilities of the .NET Framework came significant improvements in the way that VS programmers are able to capture and deal...
View ArticleWindows for Supercomputers
In late May 2004, Microsoft made the announcement that it was considering entering the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Market, a market that has traditionally been dominated by custom-engineered...
View ArticleApplicability of the .NET Platform to Bioinformatics Research
A current look at the field of bioinformatics will reveal that it is a field that is largely dominated by the Linux operating system, as well as by programming languages such as Perl, Python, and Java....
View ArticleThe Open Source Advantage in Secure Application Development
The security benefits and risks of Open Source code is one of the most debated topics in information security today. The views of proponents of the Open Source model are typified by Eric Raymond's...
View ArticleYour Computer's Immune System
Parallels have often been drawn between the computer security landscape and the biological world, since security threats such as computer viruses and worms can be viewed as digital incarnations of...
View ArticleWhy 'LiveCD' Should Be a Part of Every Computer User's Vocabulary
Throughout the last decade, society has witnessed an explosion of network connectivity among PCs and mobile devices as well as a vast proliferation of networked applications, ranging from Web-based...
View ArticleUsing PHP to Enhance Password Security
When dictating password policies to users, it is common for such policies to require that users generate passwords that contain a combination of uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as numbers and...
View ArticleThe Development of a Perl-based Password Complexity Filter
If you watch the news regularly, it is easy to notice that in almost any given week some company seems to have experienced an electronic break-in or in some other way experienced a form of computer or...
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