This week we have an unusual number of submissions involving dates or timestamps. That is, the usual sorts of error'ds, but unusually many of them. Gerald E. chuckled "I do love the back to the future movies. But now I can see Beck from the future."   Steven J. Pemberton , as his mother calls him, snarked about Utilita: "I received...

Today's a simple one. We've all seen code that relies too heavily on string concatenation and eschews useful methods like Join. Nick L sends us this VB.Net example, written by a slew of mechanical engineers. PartSearchDescription = _ dFrameType + _ dFrameSize + _ dSYZD + _ dPoles + _ dBearingType + _ dBearingInsulated...

Juliano had this very non-WTF bit of PHP code: if (!$path) { //do stuff } else { //do other stuff } After another team member made a commit, however, the code turned into this: if (1 == 2) { //do stuff } else { //do other stuff } Now, generally, when I see 1 == 2 type expressions, I just assume that this is a templated, generated...

Gavin continues work on the old C++ app he inherited. Today we get a delightful smattering of bad choices. HRESULT CExAPI::GetPageCacheForFolder( IN CEntryID *p_cio_Folder, OUT CPageCache **pp_PC ) { CEntryID *p_cio_Local = new CEntryID( this, p_cio_Folder ); switch ( p_cio_Folder->m_uiType ) { case EID_TYPE_EMPTY: return S_OK;...

"The attached class connects to an Access database," writes Nicolai. That's always a good start for a WTF. Let's take a look. public class ResultLoader { private static Logger sysLog = Logger.getLogger(ResultLoader.class); private static String url = "somePath"; /** * get the ResultTable from the Access database * * @param tableName...

Tim Y. is on Fire with this burn. "Competing teams inside Google? Or just the AI recognizing marketing tactics?"   Not to be outdone, the other big search conglomerate comes in for some anonymous criticism from a poster who says their name is "irrelevant". "I was suspecting for some time that bing is giving less and less reward points....