IT Security: YOU Are The Weakest Link

There is a single most important rule to IT security:

Always address the weakest link.

The Perfect Engineering Lie

Do you estimate the time it will take you to finish your task in the mythical unit called "perfect engineering day"? Have you ever wondered why?

Good Code: A Value-Oriented Approach

The first human beings had a hard time. When they weren't on edge due to the Neanderthals who constantly tried to get their unprofitable genes into the big pool again, they had to deal with a real challenge: self reflection.

When I exercise my introspectional skills I often think fondly of my ancestors. I imagine their first grunted discussions of values, time and the meaning of soccer. And I believe these discussions closely resembled those we see about good code nowadays. But without the discussion we'd probably still be fighting naked over the affection of women. Um...

In this article I'll try to define good code from a business value perspective. I'll come to this conclusion:
Good Code executes a set of features correctly in a specified time (present value) and maximizes future value (minimizes future cost) by adhering to the dynamic nature of code through an ROI-oriented design, a test suite, process automation and VCS-usage.