The Daily WTF As oft stated, the specification governing email addresses is complicated, and isn’t really well suited for regular
The Daily WTF There are an infinite variety of ways to be wrong, but only very small number of ways to be right. Patient Peter W. discovers that
The Daily WTF So many languages eschew “truth” for “truthiness”. Today, we’re looking at PHP’s approach. PHP
The Daily WTF Strings in C are a unique collection of mistakes. The biggest one is the idea of null termination. Null termination is not without
The Daily WTF Gloria was a senior developer at IniMirage, a company that makes custom visualizations for their clients. Over a few years,
The Daily WTF It’s incredibly common to convert objects to dictionaries/maps and back, for all sorts of reasons. Jeff‘s co-worker was
The Daily WTF A twitchy anonymous reporter pointed out that our form validation code is flaky. He’s not wrong. But at least it can report
The Daily WTF In the late 90s into the early 2000s, there was an entire industry spun up to get businesses and governments off their mainframe
The Daily WTF It’s good to handle any exception that could be raised in some useful way. Frequently, this means that you need to take
The Daily WTF Joe sends us some Visual Basic .NET exception handling. Let’s see if you can spot what’s wrong? Catch ex1 As Exception