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Sunday, August 11, 2002
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Keep development teams small. Fewer programmers leads to more focused and careful planning for an application and places a cap on the number of "cool features" developers want to add in.
Make modular applications a top priority. Building software that can be linked together, instead of creating one giant application, allows errors to be isolated and companies to reduce the risk of an entire program being afflicted by a bug.
Spend time and money on fixing security early in the software development process. It's not enough to reach the end of a project and begin checking for security holes at that point.
Think creatively in your design. Good hackers will try to find new and interesting ways to assault a network.
Be humble. Developers need to realize they will make mistakes and need to look out for them instead of blindly trusting their code.
Work on educating others. College students, for example, could be encouraged to find ways to attack mock networks.
PCWorld.com
Of course, Microsoft still seems to have the goal of making everything into one giant app. That's why a bug in Media Player can compromise the entire OS.
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Neat TiVo feature. Cool TiVo feature: If you're looking at a show description and you hit the "Enter" key, you get a detailed description screen, including episode numbers, original air dates, cast info, director, etc. Keen! Discuss (Thanks, craigthom!) [Boing Boing Blog]
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