Seeing that I somehow neglected to publish an article yesterday, I figured today would be a great day for a big ole smorgasbord of interesting code. Enjoy!

"I found the following code in our core architecture library," Steven writes, "I could make a smart-ass comment about needing a reference to get a reference, but I think the code speaks for itself."

public interface ISelfAware {

    /**
     * Useful in an MBean so that it can return a live reference to itself as a
     * method call
     *
     * @return reference to this object
     */
    public ISelfAware getSelf();
}

 

"I've been thinking about looking for a new position for a little while now," wrote Daniel, "but after finding this I'm thinking about a new career!"

if(completed == 1)
   if(startdate[1] != 2)
      month = startdate[2];
   else
      month = startdate[2];
else
   month = startdate[2];

 

"This is one of our developer's misguided attempts to prevent a null pointer exception," writes Yamee.

if (_tblItem.getTable().getModel() != null 
    && _tblItem.getTable() != null 
    && _tblItem != null)

 

Arnold Vriezekolk writes, "one of the guys on our team likes to be thorough. Very, very thorough."

/* This program will only run if the laws of mathematics hold */
if(1 == 0) 
{
    fprintf("Oh crap - we are not running in the correct Universe\n");
    exit(17);
}

 

"This is in our production code," notes Joseph Daigle, "I can only hope they rolled a die to ensure this was actually random."

public static int RANDOM_PRIME_NUMBER = 215;

 

"I stumbled upon this while clearing up an Excel Automation project," Veggen Skrikk writes, "I wonder who's that lucky fellow!"

/*3 times because if we have filter on some column - 
  clean only that data, and after that cleans everything 
  else (2.), and the 3. is for lucky :) */
worksheet.Cells.ClearContents();
worksheet.Cells.ClearContents();
worksheet.Cells.ClearContents();

 

Phil writes, "the 2.2 release of the Android SDK pays homage to WTF moments with an actual API change to the log code."

// What a Terrible Failure: Report a condition that should never happen. 
Log::static int wtf(String tag, String msg)

 

"I found this snippet in the middle of a large class written by a colleague of mine," Matt writes, "I think the comment and the snippet itself sum up my experiences with this particular developer perfectly."

Map<TransactionId, List<BillingTransaction>> workMap
    = new HashMap<TransactionsId, List<BillingTransaction>>();

// Do not remove the following line. HashMaps are crazy and point 
// to old reference data even if they were instantiated fresh!
workMap.clear();

 

"I stared at this code hoping something would shout 'April Fools!'," wrote Stephen, "unfortunately, nothing of the sort happened."

public static boolean isAlphaNumeric(char c)
{
    return !isLetter(c) && !isDigit(c);
}

 

"I found this while going through a (thankfully, long gone) colleague's code," Craig wrote, "there were atleast four of these in the code."

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