AntiPatterns

• Smoke and Mirrors
• Ball of Mud
           aka. "Spaghetti Code"
• Database as an IPC
• Input Kludge
• Magic PushButton
• God Object
           an object that knows or does far too much
• Cargo Cult Programming
           you poor ignorant savage
• Race Hazard
• Singletonitis
• Busy spin
• Lava Flow
           keeping bad code because it's too expensive to do otherwise
• Magic Numbers
• De-Factoring ("Doc-Factoring")
• Copy-and-Paste Programming
• Analysis Paralysis
• Golden Hammer
• Silver Bullet
           No Silver Bullet for accidental complexity

• "you are not expected to understand this"
• "i=i++"
• "this will crash"
• "this shouldn't work"
• "this is so broken"
• "ugly hack"
• "hail mary"
• "compiler happy"
• "black magic"
• "dead chicken waving"