Comments on: Top 10 Concepts That Every Software Engineer Should Know http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/07/29/top-10-concepts-that-every-software-engineer-should-know/ Software Development and Biomedical Engineering Tue, 15 May 2012 17:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: andy http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/2008/07/29/top-10-concepts-that-every-software-engineer-should-know/comment-page-1/#comment-817 andy Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:34:21 +0000 http://rdn-consulting.com/blog/?p=176#comment-817 Strange list really, as it contains elements from all over the place. While I agree with most of the elements on the list and they seem to be a haphazard sum up of general topics of a CS Master (or even Bachelor) I cannot really see what Cloud Computing (and a so wide concept as security) does on a list of more fundamental and age old concepts such as hashing, interfaces and layering... Saying you should know about security is like saying "we should write bug free software". Nobody strives for bad security, but security can be implemented in a multitude of ways (more than possible to describe really, from physical lock and key to organisational policies...) Strange list really, as it contains elements from all over the place. While I agree with most of the elements on the list and they seem to be a haphazard sum up of general topics of a CS Master (or even Bachelor) I cannot really see what Cloud Computing (and a so wide concept as security) does on a list of more fundamental and age old concepts such as hashing, interfaces and layering…

Saying you should know about security is like saying “we should write bug free software”. Nobody strives for bad security, but security can be implemented in a multitude of ways (more than possible to describe really, from physical lock and key to organisational policies…)

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