Publisher: Wiley, 1998, 309 pages
ISBN: 0-471-19713-0
Keywords: Information Systems
Are you headed into the software development mine field? Follow someone if you can, but if you're on your own-better get the map! AntiPatterns is the map. This book helps you navigate through today's dangerous software development projects. Just look at the statistics:
While patterns help you to identify and implement procedures, designs, and codes that work, AntiPatterns do the exact opposite; they let you zero-in on the development detonators, architectural tripwires, and personality booby traps that can spell doom for your project. Written by an all-star team of object-oriented systems developers, AntiPatterns identifies 40 of the most common AntiPatterns in the areas of software development, architecture, and project management. The authors then show you how to detect and defuse AntiPatterns as well as supply refactored solutions for each AntiPattern presented.
An oldie, but good and still valid. An answer to the Pattern-sycophants. And it is funny as well, which makes it enjoyable.
They are having a technical streak, and attacks management practices that are not always the best (but they attack their programmer brethren as well). Funny thing is that the authors are old CORBA-people, which in itself is nowadays seen as one of the greatest Antipatterns...
Worth reading if you're into IT, otherwise, it will probably go over your head.
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