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Christopher Frenz

Christopher Frenz is the author of "Visual Basic and Visual Basic .NET for Scientists and Engineers" (Apress) and "Pro Perl Parsing" (Apress). He is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Engineering at the New York City College of Technology (CUNY), where he performs computational biology and machine learning research.

Why 'LiveCD' Should Be a Part of Every Computer User's Vocabulary

By Christopher Frenz

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 email to online banking. The end result of this is that network connectivity has become ...

Mar. 7, 2008 11:00 AM Reads: 2,828

Your Computer's Immune System

By Christopher Frenz

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 common biological threats. Similarities exist in terms of modes of reproduction as well ...

Oct. 11, 2006 04:30 PM Reads: 5,043 Replies: 1

The Open Source Advantage in Secure Application Development

By Christopher Frenz

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 argument that Open Source software is intrinsically more secure since its open nature let...

Jul. 24, 2006 01:00 PM Reads: 17,560

Applicability of the .NET Platform to Bioinformatics Research

By Christopher Frenz

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. Windows and its associated native application development platforms are not in wides...

Oct. 25, 2005 03:00 PM Reads: 15,516 Replies: 1

Windows for Supercomputers

By Christopher Frenz

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 Unix-based machines. In recent years, advances in technology have made possible the constr...

Aug. 10, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 13,201

Error Prevention in VS.NET

By Christopher Frenz

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 with programmatic errors. Yet these more robust abilities do not lessen the importance o...

Apr. 6, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 11,982

Demystifying Regular Expressions

By Christopher Frenz

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 parsing and mining on data sets, or searching for sequence similarities in the human genome...

Mar. 11, 2004 12:00 AM Reads: 12,735

Creating Mobile Controls with the Mobile Internet Toolkit

By Christopher Frenz

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 powerful enough to address, or for which they simply fail to meet the requirements. In ...

Jan. 30, 2003 12:00 AM Reads: 8,919