The Daily WTF I’m not entirely sure I understand the first item today, but maybe you can help. I pulled a couple of older items from the

The Daily WTF I remember in some intro-level compsci class learning that credit card numbers were checksummed, and writing basic functions to

The Daily WTF We previously discussed some whitespacing choices in a C++ codebase. Tim promised that there were more WTFs lurking in there, and

The Daily WTF Marco found this wreck, left behind by a former co-worker: $(“#image_sample”).html(‘<i><br /><br

The Daily WTF As oft stated, the “right” way to validate emails is to do a bare minimum sanity check on format, and then send a

The Daily WTF It’s only a day away! Punctual Robert F. never procrastinates. But I think now would be a good time for a change. He worries

The Daily WTF Markus does QA, and this means writing automated tests which wrap around the code written by developers. Mostly this is a

The Daily WTF Today, we look at a simple bit of bad code. The badness is not that they’re using Oracle, though that’s always bad. But

The Daily WTF The end of the quarter was approaching, and dark clouds were gathering in the C-suite. While they were trying to be tight lipped

The Daily WTF There are things which are true. Regular expressions frequently perform badly. They’re hard to read. Email addresses are not