Betcha didn't know there were *that* many synonyms for the noun "jumble". No less, you know what that means ...

Geoff Thompson found a rather obnoxious pattern in his former co-worker's code; all of the "important" methods had a "confirmation" argument that you had to set to true. You know, just in case you accidentally called the method ...

Public Sub ResetCase(Optional ByVal bRestart As Boolean = False)
   If bRestart Then
      objUtils.ResetCase(bRestart)
   End If
End Sub

Next up we have a bit of code that Mike Lee came across in some code that he his evil twin had written. I dunno, maybe this isn't so bad. I can see it useful if they ever decide to change the symmetric property of equality ...

if((0 == DblSpread) || (0 == DblSpread))
  SwapGrid.GetCellRange(RowNumber, SwapGrid.Cols[ColDblSpread].Index).Clear(C1.Win.C1FlexGrid.ClearFlags.All);
else
{
  SwapGrid[RowNumber, ColDblSpread] = DblSpread;
  cr = SwapGrid.GetCellRange(RowNumber, SwapGrid.Cols[ColDblSpread].Index);
  cr.Style = StyleBidDblBoldSpread;
}

Here's a platform we don't see to often: XSL. Actually, that's a good thing. Nothing worse than putting all of your business logic in XML style sheets. Especially when it's written like this snippet from Shane Blake 

<xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$isValid!='true'">
       <xsl:attribute name="class">enabledDiv</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:when test="$isValid!='true'">
        <xsl:attribute name="class">disabledDiv</xsl:attribute>
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise/>
</xsl:choose>

Speaking of platforms we don't see too often, here's some Perl that Augie Schwer came across ...

sendmail(%email) || &fail;
if($failed == 1)
{
  push @ret, "Couldn't send Request: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n";
  push @ret, &pReturn;
}
else
{
  push @ret, "Request Successfully sent\n";
  push @ret, &pReturn;
}

sub fail
{
  $failed = 1;
}

Eric Casto came across some code written by a co-worker who really wanted to make sure his bases were covered ...

if (connected || !connected)
{
  //ED: Snip
}

And finally here's the barebones of a 400+ line function that saiti came across called SearchForString. The function is responsible for searching for a string in another string ... 

if(searchingAll)
{
  
  //ED: Snip

  if(!AllSearching)
  {
    //ED: Snip
    
    if(!searchAll)
    { 
      //ED: Snip
    }
  }
}

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