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- noun software engineering A
design pattern that may be commonly used but isineffective and/orcounterproductive in practice.
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Examples
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Which I now would wish for is that Twitter would remove that password antipattern page from the Find people tab and replace it with calls to some contacts API using OAuth or at least a similar mechanism.
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Please tag any related screenshots on Flickr with: antipattern socialnetworkantipattern
Public nuisance #1: Importing your contacts | FactoryCity 2007
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I agree with ToddH's points, this could be useful for some; and IMO searching for a silver bullet is a behavioral antipattern in this space.
O'Reilly News 2010
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I agree with ToddH's points, this could be useful for some; and IMO searching for a silver bullet is a behavioral antipattern in this space.
O'Reilly News 2010
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This has a number of negative knock on effects - the worst probably is the reintroduction of the 80\% done antipattern that agile all but eliminates.
planet.journals.ie 2009
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This has a number of negative knock on effects - the worst probably is the reintroduction of the 80\% done antipattern that agile all but eliminates.
Planet XML 2009
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And yes, please delete the extra topics and rename the original "ExplanationOf" topic to something without this antipattern part in its topic name.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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Spring has made noble attempts to enhance the programmer's ability to regulate the infusion of state into items at the moment of creation A long time ago, when first people were starting to use objects, an antipattern popped up quickly: the object as just a temporary bucket that gets filled up, some procedure is invoked against / with it, then it gets thrown away.
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And yes, please delete the extra topics and rename the original "ExplanationOf" topic to something without this antipattern part in its topic name.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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And yes, please delete the extra topics and rename the original "ExplanationOf" topic to something without this antipattern part in its topic name.
TWiki.Codev 2009
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