The Daily WTF Validating inputs matters. It’s also a challenge. Validating that an input is numeric might be easy, but validating an email
The Daily WTF When John takes on a new codebase, he always looks for low-risk ways to learn the code by changing it. Things like beefing up the
The Daily WTF Henrik H is contracting with a client, and that client uses a number of other contractors. Some of them have… interesting
The Daily WTF Parsing strings into other data types is always potentially fraught, what with the edge cases and possible errors. This is why most
The Daily WTF This week has been mostly centered on a holiday for the USians. In the era of online retail and the global dominance of Amazon, the
The Daily WTF So, it’s a holiday in the US, and I’ll be honest: the way I pick my holiday posts is by hitting the “Random
The Daily WTF Brittany is a game developer, and frequently ends up working on contracts for other companies. One company wanted her to add some
The Daily WTF While XML is a complicated specification, and incredibly bureaucratic and verbose, it’s also powerful enough that many
The Daily WTF We know that June 7th, 2006 was a long day for Jonas, Rusty‘s long-ago predecessor. We know that, because Jonas made a big
The Daily WTF Our own Michael R. , still job-hunting, has turned up a position that should NEVER be filled. “ I was hoping at least one of