The Daily WTF Before RESTful web services and JSON as a serialization format, XML was going to conquer the world. Circa 2001, I remember going to

The Daily WTF Our friend Argle has shared a great many stories with us. Today’s story is one that Argle relates secondhand, about one of

The Daily WTF Andy found this simple function in a C project he’s working on. void clearVal(int x) { x = 0; } This is a thing of beauty,

The Daily WTF Mike‘s team had a new hire. They did great on the interview, really shined in the coding challenges, so it was a no-brainer

The Daily WTF Surprise-hating Adam R. worries “I thought I ordered some outdoors gear, but apparently I’m receiving some not valid

The Daily WTF We ofter talk about dates and timekeeping as extraordinarily difficult tasks. And, at least in part, that may have to do with their

The Daily WTF After a move to another city, Philip found himself looking for work. Fortunately, a contract came his way. The money was good, the

The Daily WTF “Generic exception handlers” sound like an oxymoron, but are a weirdly common pattern in web development. ASP .NET, for

The Daily WTF Mac bears some responsibility for today’s code, in that, he “fixed” it. That is to say, he was working on an

The Daily WTF It’s a new year, but Error’d never changes. Still (mostly) the same contributors, still the same reliable return of