Manual Deployment Antipattern

It always felt wrong and now I found that it is actually a named antipattern! Yay! Now I can take that and use it to knock people on the head. Intellectual bullying - I'm lovin' it!

Alright, the article is about deployment automation, and this one in particular brings back memories. Hours and hours spent, manually deploying and redeploying a system, trying to ensure all dependencies were met.

Oh and of course, the reason I am loving this is the Antipatterns book, which I thought was brilliant. The whole concept of common pitfalls is just great - read it and you already know things you should be avoiding, you don't have to learn the hard way.