The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Invisible Developers?

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2011-05-18

Earlier this year, Manuel started working as a consultant in a big service company.

The project he was assigned to has an interesting history - the entire dev team that started the project over a year before had suddenly evaporated a couple of months before he arrived.

84 comments - Last comment @ 2011-05-22

A Problem Has Been (The Sequel)

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2011-05-13

"Saw this on the way home," writes Jason C., "Could this be turning into a trend?"

96 comments - Last comment @ 2014-10-01

Count on it every day!

by Mark Bowytz in Error'd on 2011-05-06

Writes Casey B., "As it turns out, there are two conditions which must be met before one can count on it every day."

139 comments - Last comment @ 2011-05-27

No, Continue, Chancel?

by Mark Bowytz in CodeSOD on 2011-05-04

Robert V. writes, "I was investigating an issue that came up with one tool in our test automation framework and found following code:"

Select Case DataConnection.GetDataCellValue(_
                "Document Marketing", DataConnection.CurrentBlockID, _
                "TaxExemptionMatrix", "ClickButton", iRow)
   Case "No", "NO", "no"
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "3", 0) 'No
   Case "Continue", "CONTINUE", "continue"
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "1", 0) ''Continue   
   Case "Chancel", "CHANCEL", "chancel"
      Connector.Connection.PressItem("0", 2, "2", 0) 'Chancel
   Case Else
End Select

130 comments - Last comment @ 2017-12-14