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by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2026-10-06

Many years ago, DJ got his start doing odd web development jobs for a low hourly rate. He was only 19 when he got started, and what he lacked in experience he made up for in being cheap to hire.

As I said, that was many years ago, and he has since learned a lot. But he still has some code from his very first "someone paid me for this" project. This particular function needed to pick a random bit of content from their database to display in the "right side" banner area. This is how DJ implemented it.

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The Date and Time and Time

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2026-10-05

Today's anonymous submitter sends us some legacy Java code.

The task is this: check what time it is. And fortunately, even in the older Java datetime libraries that were terrible, this was an easy task. You just needed to do something like new Date(), which constructs a date time object set to the current time. getTime() picks off just the time portion.

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by Lyle Seaman in Error'd on 2026-10-02

We have for you this week a full set of the Error'd we most love to hate: the perverse password policy.

An anonymous reader drops this, with little to say except to note "Speciaal passwords". Evidently they supplied a password which satisfied each of the five green critera, but still it was rejected. It would be nice to know where this offense originated,

19 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-05

Very Valid Tokens

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2026-10-01

Today's anonymous submitter shares with us the function their company uses to validate authentication tokens.

public bool IsTokenValid(string token)
{
    //TODO
    return true;
}

17 comments - Last comment @ 2026-10-03

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