The Daily WTF On one hand, we should all be doing our revision tracking in our source control system, and we shouldn’t let code comments
The Daily WTF Different languages will frequently have similar syntax. Many a pointy-haired-boss has seen this similarity and thus assumed that,
The Daily WTF Anita, a senior developer, had recently been hired at a company with around 60 employees. Her first assignment was to assist with
The Daily WTF Scientists frequently need software to support their research, but rarely are strong developers. And why should they be, that
The Daily WTF This week, anonymous Franz starts us off with a catch-22. “I opened MS Word (first time after reboot) and a dialog box opens
The Daily WTF Oracle is… special. While their core product is their database software, what they actually sell is layers and layers of ERPs and
The Daily WTF There are a lot of times when we want string comparisons to be case insensitive. It’s quite a lot of cases, so every language
The Daily WTF We all make simple mistakes. It’s inevitable. “Pobody’s nerfect,” as they say, and we all have brain-farts,
The Daily WTF “Don’t use magic numbers,” is a good rule for programming. But like any rule, you shouldn’t blindly apply
The Daily WTF While Error’d and TDWTF do have an international following, and this week’s offerings are truly global, we are