The Daily WTF This week brings an ongoing installment in a long-running gag, and a plea for help with a truly execrable pun. Can someone please
The Daily WTF In many places, driver’s licenses work on a point system. As you commit infractions, you gain or lose points, when your point
The Daily WTF Linda discovered a new anti-pattern, helpfully explained with comments. try { this.initializeConfig(this.configFile); } catch
The Daily WTF Kerin inherited a scheduling application for a university. This application stored the scheduled days for a class in the database…
The Daily WTF Nullable types, at least in theory, make our code simpler and easier to maintain. If nothing else, we know when there’s a
The Daily WTF Danish cookie connoisseur Jørgen N. contributes our starter course this week. “Cloudera has an interesting way of
The Daily WTF “Don’t concatenate long strings,” is generally solid advice in most languages. Due to internal representations,
The Daily WTF Martin‘s company had written a set of command line tools which their internal analysts could then string together via shell
The Daily WTF Let’s say you saw a method called StrToGuid, in a C# codebase. Your first thought might be: “Wait, isn’t there a
The Daily WTF “There are a few more functions like this in the same file,” writes Jenny, about today’s submission. This is one