
AntiPatterns
by William J. Brown, Raphael C. Malveau, Thomas J. Mowbray, Hays W. "Skip" McCormick III · first published 1998
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If anyone hasn't read it I highly recommend the book "Antipatterns" (http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch... ... or just google antipatterns. My personal pet peeve is that many programmers don't refactor nearly often nor thorougly enough. It…
on “Signs that you're a bad programmer (2012)” ↗The "Antipatterns" section of the site is the verbatim text of "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis" [1], which is one of my all-time favorite books, but doesn't seem to credit the…
on “Design Patterns and Refactoring” ↗…many of the most important ones, or rather books: http://www.amazon.com/s?index=blended&link_code=qs&f... Although I can only vouch for the tremendous usefullness of the first: http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch... Hmmm, I think it went out of print but it's back.
on “Anti Patterns Catalog” ↗One of the reasons really like and recommend the Antipatterns book (http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch...) and approach is that it starts with the identification of a bad pattern (this author's complaints are at a higher level, though)…
on “The lies that software developers tell” ↗"No list like this would be complete without a book about design patterns." If this is true, then no such list is complete without the Antipatterns book AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis (http://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-Refactoring-Software-Arch...). The thesis is that if good software, projects and teams…
on “Career-Changing Programming Books” ↗…Design in Modula-2" https://www.amazon.de/Larry-R-Nyhoff/dp/0023886218/ref=sr_1_... "Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction" https://www.amazon.com/dp/0735619670/ref=sr_1_1 "AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis" https://www.amazon.com/AntiPatterns-William-J-Brown/dp/04711... "Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming" https://www.amazon.com/Component-Software-Object-Oriented-Pr...…
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