Developer's Guide to Web Application Security

Introduction

A code grinder—as defined by the hacker community reference, the Jargon Dictionary

(www.eps.mcgill.ca/jargon/jargon.html)—is a developer who lacks creativity and is

bound by rules and primitive techniques. Developers who become code grinders

rarely do so because of lack of ambition; code grinders are born from an environ-

ment that struggles with freedom at a developer level.

Some industries hold the belief that rigid rules and boundaries are needed to

produce secure, consistent results—the banking industry and the federal government

are two such industries. Stringent rules apply to development work in these indus-

tries, and any others that ...