The Daily WTF Relational databases were at one time an absolute standard that nearly any developer could be expected to be familiar with. These
The Daily WTF While the world has switched to RESTful APIs, the magical power of SOAP-based web-services was that they made code generation easy.
The Daily WTF Dates and times are way more complicated than we usually think they are, especially when we’re talking about historical dates
The Daily WTF Many years ago, at the height of the Industrial Revolution, the United States was criscrossed by a riot of regional railroads.
The Daily WTF Ah, the joys of stringly typed code. Everything can be turned into a string, so why not treat everything as a string? It certainly
The Daily WTF We like using constants instead of magic numbers. Today, we see an unusual misuse of them. It’s unusual because, while
The Daily WTF Pretty much all object oriented languages have some concept of “destruction”: objects need to release any resources
The Daily WTF Managing the requirements for an application is a huge challenge. The hardest part of the challenge is that, very frequently, the
The Daily WTF We got quite a few irregular submissions this week from regular contributors. Which is to say routine contributors. We’re not
The Daily WTF James‘s management had more work than they had staffing for, so they did what any company would do in that situation: expand