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Give me implementations, not specs

Back in the 90's integrating heterogeneous systems was a developer's headache, and the scarce occasions where a provider decided to provide a standard interface (be it »

Editorial on antipattern 08 May 2007

Antipattern of the month #5: Inertia applied to software development

Things in the universe tend to be lazy. This was how Isaac Asimov used to explain inertia. Have you seen your project recently? Well, look again. »

Editorial on antipattern 04 December 2006

Antipattern of the month #4: Blind Debugging

My mechanic says he's not able to fix my car by phone. To be fair, I would even allow him to give it a look from »

Editorial on antipattern 02 November 2006

Antipattern of the month #3: suicide requirements

Almost all living things in the world (with notable exceptions) have that little survival thinguie adhered to the brain, you know, striving for practical stuff like »

Editorial on antipattern 02 October 2006

Antipattern on the month #2: Random Coding

"The infinite monkey theorem states that a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite time will almost surely type the »

Editorial on antipattern 31 August 2006
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