Top "Anti-patterns" questions

A programming anti-pattern is a commonly used solution to a specific programming problem, often claiming being an actual design pattern.

Change value of parameter inside method, is this an anti-pattern?

So something like this public void MyMethod(object parameter) //.... BuildSomething(parameter); BuildLayers(parameter); BuildOtherStuff(parameter); } public void BuildSomething(object parameter) { //... …

c# anti-patterns
Rich Domain Model and ORM

Martin Fowler considers Anemic Domain Model as an anti-pattern. Rolling the Persistence Model as the Domain Model seems severely off …

design-patterns architecture domain-driven-design anti-patterns
Alternative to 'for i in xrange(len(x))'

So I see in another post the following "bad" snippet, but the only alternatives I have seen involve patching Python. …

python for-loop anti-patterns