# IT:AD:Design:AntiPatterns #


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AntiPatterns are common code practices that are thought to make development easier...but turn out to do the opposite.


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## AntiPatterns ##


###### Vestigial Structure Pattern ###### 

Keeping old methods because we can't remember if anybody is calling them...Nobody brave enought to remove.



###### Flags Over Objects ###### 

Properties to help it decide which way to render, etc.

**[[IT/#DDD/]]** Document Driven Design is a denigrating term for software designed by the [[IT/#BA/]]s who are defining technical specifications that they have no qualifications for (ie, defining the db schema, the [[IT/#UX/]], etc.)



###### Gawd Classes

* See: [[IT/AD/Design/AntiPatterns/Gawd Classes|Gawd Classes]]


###### Active Record ###### 

* See: [[IT/AD/Design/AntiPatterns/Active Record/]]


###### The Iceberg Class ###### 

ie: Big Privates ...


###### Found On Internet ###### 


###### Copy-Paste-Compile Pattern ###### 

"I copied it from CodeProject". in contrast to [[IT/AD/Patterns/DRY/]]


###### THe Golden Hammer ###### 

Same language/tool for everything...


###### Shiny Toy ###### 


###### Not Invented Here ###### 

You just got to write your own, eh?



######  Beware The Share! ###### 


######  Feature Creep###### 

Missed Software, Deliver frequenty.


###### Assumption Driven Programming###### 

You are Not the User. Cats thinking as Dogs.


###### Telemarketer Principle###### 

Contrast with [[IT/AD/Patterns/Hollywood Principle/]].


###### Static Cling Pattern ######

Static things are to be avoided.

###### Spare Parts in Close Formation #####

Using [[IT/#scalar/]]s as arguments to methods, is easier, but (no pun intended) doesn't scale well across [[IT/#Tier/]]s.