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The Daily WTF: Error'd: Screw You Oracle Interceptor!
"I work for an IT department in a large department store and while scanning through some old code, I ran upon this gem," writes Steve C., "I can't say that I disagree!"
Evi Vanoost wrote, "Wells Fargo needs to make up it's mind. I mean, did the password...
Dateline: 2013-05-17 3:16am -07:00T (229 words)
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The Daily WTF: Kilobits and Drillbits
Kristian stood on the deck of the USS Marianas, the sun in his face. The Marianas and her sister ship, the USS Abyssal Explorer, were a two-boat exploration team, scouring the Atlantic for oil deposits not yet tapped by offshore rigs. The sea rolled benea...
Dateline: 2013-05-16 3:46am -07:00T (740 words)
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The Daily WTF: CodeSOD: Habla Currency
Adam worked for a company that sold check printing machines. It was not a particularly large company, but the machines were cutting edge when it came to the latest and greatest technologies to prevent check fraud. So while the company was doing well enoug...
Dateline: 2013-05-15 4:31am -07:00T (821 words)
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The Daily WTF: Speak No Evil, Pat
It was with a great deal of enthusiasm that Pat, fresh out of college, joined Multinational Bank. Their technology division was the pride of the financial industry, and the on-boarding session Pat received did not disappoint: he was treated to a full day ...
Dateline: 2013-05-14 4:46am -07:00T (771 words)
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The Daily WTF: CodeSOD: The Impossible Blob
BlobConfig.config not found, said the error console of The Blob-- the "insane in every way" system Sep's company produced.
Because a millisecond earlier, The Blob erroneously determined Sep's computer already had a copy of the config file, and didn't aut...
Dateline: 2013-05-13 4:01am -07:00T (415 words)
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The Daily WTF: Error'd: Where I Come From, We Don't Need July
"Someone FINALLY got it right!!" Farz wrote, "In my native language, we don't have translations for seven months out of the year. Way to go Windows Live!!"
"I know Dell is supposed to be going private, but I didn't know that it would be up to me to kee...
Dateline: 2013-05-10 3:46am -07:00T (210 words)
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The Daily WTF: Fire Rescue, Troubled Widgets, and Other Support Stories
The company that Karl J. works for recently signed a contract with a big North American corporation and everybody’s really excited at the prospect. Practically overnight, their flagship product - a platform-as-a-service solution – would gain a boost o...
Dateline: 2013-05-09 3:46am -07:00T (920 words)
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The Daily WTF: Cheaters Never Prosper
"That's quite an impressive resume, Fred," Avi said.
The phone interview had gone well so far; among the several hundred applicants
for Senior Developer at BigBoxCo, Fred's qualifications put him among the top
five Avi had spoken to. Fred himself was a...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 4:16am -07:00T (429 words)
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The Daily WTF: Announcements: England DevOps Talks/Workshop and a London Meet-up
I'll be heading to England next week to talk about DevOps and Cloud Stuffs.
Jun 16 (Thu) @ Coventry User Group (What is DevOps Anyway?) Jun 21 (Tue) @ Cambridge User Group (What is DevOps Anyway?) Jun 22 (Wed) @ London (Practical DevOps & Continuous...
Dateline: 2013-05-08 1:46am -07:00T (184 words)
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The Daily WTF: CodeSOD: A Cascade of Failure
Ben sent in the following snippet from a PHP site. His description of the site as a whole is unpublishable in most countries, but among his frankly shocking profanity he pointed out a lack of error checking and comments, and an abundance of unreadable inl...
Dateline: 2013-05-07 3:31am -07:00T (294 words)
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The Daily WTF: Trust Your Instincts
I'm not looking for a new job, but a head-hunter called (from a five year old resume) with a position that sounded pin point perfect. Since there is nothing going on at work, I thought I'd check it out. At the interview, I met some mid and senior level de...
Dateline: 2013-05-06 4:16am -07:00T (566 words)
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The Daily WTF: Error'd: What's This?
"I just wanted to know what a certain pending charge meant on my credit card, unfortunately the help text popup didn't know either," writes Alex N.
"I was looking at a mortgage prepayment calculator and after entering the terms of my current loan, the u...
Dateline: 2013-05-03 4:16am -07:00T (209 words)
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The Daily WTF: Slacking Off
“It’s a small, dynamic company.” “We’re growing, and growing fast!” “Our agile team needs some strong management, and we think you’re right for the job.” “Your paycheck is going to be so large Ed...
Dateline: 2013-05-02 3:46am -07:00T (860 words)
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The Daily WTF: CodeSOD: Re-Inventing the Alphabet
Michael listened as his co-worker Draughon droned on at lunch. "I just don't trust hashes, man. I never understood any of the algorithms behind them, and I don't trust anything I don't understand."
"But MD5 is a well-documented algorithm," Michael coun...
Dateline: 2013-05-01 3:46am -07:00T (361 words)
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The Daily WTF: Irregular Regular Expressions
Marcus A. worked for a man who believed that regular expressions were the be-all end-all and could be used to trivially solve every data problem that could possibly arise. Their code base was riddled with regular expression transformations that would redu...
Dateline: 2013-04-30 4:01am -07:00T (704 words)
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