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  • noun Alternative spelling of antipattern.

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Examples

  • An opportunity for OAuth: Jeff “CodingHorror” Atwood highlights the password anti-pattern « OAuth on Jun 5th at 1pm

    Inventing contact schemas for fun and profit! (Ugh) | FactoryCity 2008

  • At best, combined with OAuth, third-parties never need your account password, defeating the password anti-pattern and providing a more secure way to share your data.

    Responding to criticisms about OpenID: convenience, security and personal agency | FactoryCity 2008

  • In fact the plethora of microsites in local government over the years are testimony to the overall failure of web teams pre-ordained to fail by committees spending cash on IT structures they barely understand, and are an anti-pattern in their own right.

    Why do people want microsites? at Helpful Technology 2009

  • Unlike the memorable pattern names from that other luminous book Design Patterns (1995) – Singleton, Observer, Visitor, etc. – the anti-pattern names in Refactoring sometimes degenerate into the ludicrous: Feature Envy, Inappropriate Intimacy, Primitive Obsession, Speculative Generality, ...

    Archive 2007-01-01 Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • Unlike the memorable pattern names from that other luminous book Design Patterns (1995) – Singleton, Observer, Visitor, etc. – the anti-pattern names in Refactoring sometimes degenerate into the ludicrous: Feature Envy, Inappropriate Intimacy, Primitive Obsession, Speculative Generality, ...

    Better Names for Martin Fowler's "Refactoring Smells" Jonathan Aquino 2007

  • I'll try to remember to change the text. stupid password anti-pattern ... zcopley

    Zach Copley » Identi.ca gets a Facebook application 2009

  • At best, combined with OAuth, third-parties never need your account password, defeating the password anti-pattern and providing a more secure way to share your data.

    Public nuisance #1: Importing your contacts | FactoryCity 2007

  • You see, I have an interest in social network portability (also called “make holes in my buckets”) — I gave a talk on SPSNs from a user point of view at WebCamp SNP in Cork recently — and I am also concerned that in many cases, implementations in that direction make generous use of the password anti-pattern (ie, asking people for the password to their e-mail).

    2008 April — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Sadly, Diigo commits the password anti-pattern crime, which no social tool is allowed to do anymore now that Google has a password-free API to get around that see Flickr and Dopplr: the Right Way to Import GMail Contacts.

    2008 April — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Sadly, Diigo commits the password anti-pattern crime, which no social tool is allowed to do anymore now that Google has a password-free API to get around that see Flickr and Dopplr: the Right Way to Import GMail Contacts.

    Diigo — I Think I Like the Idea (Bonus Content: Conversation Fragmentation) — Climb to the Stars 2008

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