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📅 June 14, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 June 12, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 June 10, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 June 7, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 2 minutes read

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…

📅 June 5, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

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…

📅 June 3, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Input Kludge AntiPattern

It is hard to think of the word “kludge” and anything other than an anti-pattern. Thus, the input kludge antipattern is an obvious name. This example of how not to code is focused on…

📅 May 31, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 2 minutes read

The Ambiguous Viewpoint AntiPattern

The ambiguous viewpoint anti-pattern is one that goes to the heart of object-oriented design. We want to abstract and isolate functionality in a way that follows a pattern of logic. This goal is often…

📅 May 29, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

Walking Through a Minefield AntiPattern

Velocity is an important part of modern software development. However, there is also that adage that “speed kills.” Therefore, we need to strike a balance to avoid the “walking through a minefield’ antipattern. We…

📅 May 27, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 3 minutes read

The Dead End AntiPattern – The Name Says It All

Over the years, we have built tiny up to large systems that provide a launching point for other applications. These solutions are built on the hard work and ingenuity of those that went before…

📅 May 24, 2019 Common Anti-Patterns ⏱ 4 minutes read

The Copy Paste AntiPattern – An Easy Trap To Fall Into

We all do it. There is a chunk of code that almost does what we need. So, we copy and paste it where we want it then make some modifications. When we do this…