The Tech Beacon site has posted a list of thirty-five programming habits that make your code "smell", little things that you might do every day without knowing they could be causing issues with the long term maintenance of your code.

Bad habits are hard to break and even harder if you don't realize that what you're doing is undermining your work. If you know but don't care—that would be the worst. But you're here, aren't you?

As a programmer, I've seen a lot of poor practices, not just around code, but also around teamwork skills. I've been guilty of practicing many of these bad habits myself. Here are my top 35 bad programming habits, organized into four categories: code organization, teamwork, writing code, and testing and maintenance.

They've broken up the bad habits into different categories to make it a bit easier to consume:

• Code organization
• Teamwork
• Writing code
• Testing and maintenance

I think just about any developer out there as, at one time or another, fallen into the trap of one or more of these bad habits.