Anti Patterns Catalog Discussion

Comments and discussion page for the AntiPatternsCatalog

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Categorical Listing from the AntiPatternsBook. These are definitive, according to the reference, please don't change.

Does this mean don't add new AntiPatterns to this list, or just don't alter/change the categories as listed?

• I think the goal was to keep this in synch with the AntiPatternsBook, but that seems silly. Let's just keep growing - that's what the Wiki is for?

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A couple of anti-patterns are mentioned in the following online article regarding Javascript of all things. Of particular interest might be: "AllWebDevelopmentIsNewDevelopment?". There is also a link from the article to a listing of Riel's OO Heuristics; see http://www.devpapers.com/article/259/

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Deduplication of listings and cleanup

• I did some cleanup in the ManagementAntiPattern area and category (CategoryManagementAntiPattern). Try to deduplicate ManagementAntiPatterns and to sort them by type with an appropriate RoadMap page (ManagementAntiPatternRoadMap). I will try to catch the orphan pages also when I find them.
• Did the same for DevelopmentAntiPatterns and associated categories and RoadMap.
• I removed NationalIsm from the AntiPatternsCatalog. Obviouly, even if it is a BadThing, it is difficult to consider it as an AntiPattern.
• I created backward links between categories and RoadMaps index.

-- OlivierRey

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