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Overusing the Null-Conditional Operator

The null-conditional operator is the ?. between object and field/property/method. It simply says that if the thing on the left hand side is null then the thing...

— 10 Sep 2016

Parallel Loop Anti-pattern

Here’s a quick parallel loop anti-pattern. In other words, don’t do this, it will only make you miserable. If you want to start tasks in a loop watch out for...

— 06 Jun 2011

The try-catch-return-false-throw-catch-return-false-throw-fail anti-pattern

I recently came across a wonderful anti-pattern. Well, anti-patterns are not wonderful, but the mind just boggles at the sheer bloody lunacy of this particular...

— 29 Aug 2008