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📅 June 17, 2019

The Grand Old Duke of York Anti-Pattern

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 not a practical approach. We should set up…

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📅 June 14, 2019

Design By Committee – A More is Less Anti-pattern

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, there is a diminishing return as we add…

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📅 June 12, 2019

The Warm Bodies AntiPattern – Not a Cool Situation

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 in this episode about the warm bodies approach.…

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📅 June 10, 2019

Autogenerated Stovepipe – An Anti-Pattern

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 a facet of the autogenerated stovepipe. Even the…

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📅 June 7, 2019

Wolf Ticket AntiPattern – Not What It Seems

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 entirely or even in the same way. This…

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📅 June 5, 2019

Defining The Jumble AntiPattern

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 to be horizontal and vertical aspects of a…

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