The Daily WTF Let’s say your company wanted to offer special deals. When a customer calls about one of these deals, you want to play an
The Daily WTF Efren‘s employer recently acquired a competitor. The competitor had been struggling for a number of years, and the
The Daily WTF Luke has inherited a Java Struts-based application. Struts is one of the many Java web frameworks, designed around having HTTP
The Daily WTF File under “Old Business”: Swissrail just can’t catch a break. Diligent Richard B. dug into the news and reports
The Daily WTF User interfaces tend to map fairly naturally to trees as a data structure. In the modern world where we’ve forgotten how to
The Daily WTF Mateus inherited some code where half the variables were named things like strAux1 and strAux2. It was a data driven application,
The Daily WTF Correctly validating an email address, per the spec, is actually surprisingly hard. This is, in part, because there are a lot of
The Daily WTF “QPirate” was debugging an issue with purchase order version information. The format was supposed to be
The Daily WTF One of my multitude of peeves is the phrase “special characters.” Somehow, our lexicon has been corrupted by
The Daily WTF Before RESTful web services and JSON as a serialization format, XML was going to conquer the world. Circa 2001, I remember going to