Matthew Dresser

Backend Development

Practical lessons from backend development work — starting with anti-patterns to avoid in ASP.NET MVC, drawn from real mistakes made and seen along the way.

Recent Posts

A visual metaphor for Software Antipatterns. A man hammering in a nail using the back end of a cordless drill. You would not believe the amount of tokens I burned through to generate this image.

Anti-Patterns in ASP.NET MVC

Here I talk about some of the bad-practices and mistakes I have seen (and made!) with ASP.NET MVC and suggest ways to avoid them.

Backend ASP.NET MVC