The seven sins of programmers | Free Software Magazine

[gunnar at arctecgroup.net (Gunnar Peterson)]

Along these same lines, I submit ?the Four Coders of the Apocalypse? by Dave
Thomas and Andy Hunt. One of the major areas we need to work is adoption.
Programmers are not all created equal, this presentation shows four types of
programmers, and describes what drives them and ideas on dealing with the
different types. Excellent bit of software development archaelogy, if you
need tips on communicating software security designs, rationale, etc. I
would argue that through the work of Gary McGraw, Ken van Wyk, Michael
Howard, OWASP, Build Security portal, and many other resources that we are
awash in good ideas/tools/templates. What we really need is adoption.
Adoption is predicated on understanding the programmer?s mindsets.

The Four Coders of the Apocalypse are

The Lifer (someone else will take care of things, knows everything about one
topic, all solutions involve that topic, ?it can?t be done?)

The White Rabbit (no time to do it right, ?I can?t talk now?)

The Racehorse (run forward wearing blinkers, never change existing code)

The Beautiful Dreamer (programming as an end in itself)

http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/talks/4coders/4coders.htm

-gp


On 2/23/07 7:02 AM, "Kenneth Van Wyk" <ken at krvw.com> wrote:

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> So my trusty rss aggregator (NewsFire) found an interesting blog for me this
> morning, and I thought I'd share it here.? The blog is from Free Software
> Magazine and it's titled, "The seven sins of programmers".? On the surface, it
> has nothing whatsoever to do with software security -- the word "security" is
> never even mentioned in passing -- but I believe there are some worthy
> security lessons to be?gleamed from it.
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> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blog/seven_sins
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> Cheers,
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> Ken
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