The Daily WTF Many years ago, JP joined a Ruby project. This was in the heyday of Ruby, when every startup on Earth was using it, and if you
The Daily WTF Legacy systems are hard to change, and even harder to eliminate. You can’t simply do nothing though; as technology and user
The Daily WTF We got an unusual rash of submissions at Error’d this week. Here are five reasonably good ones chosen not exactly at random.
The Daily WTF Barry rolled into work at 8:30AM to see the project manager waiting at the door, wringing her hands and sweating. She paced a bit
The Daily WTF If you need a unique ID, UUIDs provide a variety of options. It’s worth noting that variants 1, 2, and 7 all incorporate a
The Daily WTF Today’s anonymous submitter has managed to find a way to do date formatting wrong that I don’t think I’ve seen
The Daily WTF At one point, someone noticed that some financial transactions weren’t summing up correctly in the C# application Nancy
The Daily WTF Today we have a whole batch of category errors, picked out from the rash of submissions and a few that have been festering on the
The Daily WTF Jenny had been perfectly happy working on a series of projects for her company, before someone said, “Hey, we need you to
The Daily WTF Once upon a time, Ryan‘s company didn’t use a modern logging framework to alert admins when services failed. No, they