Forums
A single line of code from a large application that somehow manages to provide an almost endless insight into the pain that its maintainers face each day.
There are many cases where some sort of debugging block sneaks by, especially cases where we see preprocessors or templates working, which leave us with nonsense like if (true == false) running in production. But Codemonkey found a new twist on that sort of thing, in a SQL query being run in production.
Jul 26WHERE (some conditions) AND (1 = 0 OR (1 = 1 AND (other conditions)))
Today's maybe more of a "representative data sheet entry" than anything else.
Every developer has the experience of reading the documentation. If you've been at this for some time, you've probably read bad documentation. Documentation that is incomplete, inaccurate, or otherwise flawed. Or, my personal favorite, the brief time where Oracle tried to put all of its documentation into an Adobe Flex site (aka, a Flash application, not a real web app). That one had fun bonus features, like "breaking copy and paste" and "preventing you from deep linking to a piece of the documentation".