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Author: Rob Broadhead

Rob is a founder of, and frequent contributor to, Develpreneur. This includes the Building Better Developers podcast. He is also a lifetime learner as a developer, designer, and manager of software solutions. Rob is the founder of RB Consulting and has managed to author a book about his family experiences and a few about becoming a better developer. In his free time, he stays busy raising five children (although they have grown into adults). When he has a chance to breathe, he is on the ice playing hockey to relax or working on his ballroom dance skills.

The Grand Old Duke of York Anti-Pattern

June 17, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

The skills of writing code and abstracting functionality are not the same. This fact is why the Grand old Duke of York is an anti-pattern. Passing around essential tasks like design is…

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Design By Committee – A More is Less Anti-pattern

June 14, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

There is an old saw about too many cooks spoiling the broth. This statement roughly describes the design by committee anti-pattern. While two heads may be better than one for most problems,…

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The Warm Bodies AntiPattern – Not a Cool Situation

June 12, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

We all know that more is always better except when it is not. The challenge of quality and quantity is a common anti-pattern for software development. We take a look at it…

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Autogenerated Stovepipe – An Anti-Pattern

June 10, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

In an effort to re-use our previous work, we can over-simplify a solution. One such situation is when we grow from a stand-alone system to a distributed one. This particular anti-pattern is…

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Wolf Ticket AntiPattern – Not What It Seems

June 7, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

We often look at vendors and standards for a way to improve productivity. There is nothing wrong with this and it even is a best practice. However, not everyone follows a standard…

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Defining The Jumble AntiPattern

June 5, 2019 • Common Anti-Patterns

In this episode, we tackle a higher form of the Spaghetti Code Anti-Pattern. While that is a code-level issue, the jumble antipattern shows up in the architecture. There are almost always going…

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