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Last day of 2014 means it's time to check out another year-end "Best Of WTF" article from earlier this year. Enjoy!
Personally, in all my years of application development, I have had zero use of ternary operators.
Check out a Classics republish of one of our most read articles from 2014. Enjoy!
When you read a lot of bad code, you start to get a sense of why the code exists. Often, it’s ignorance- of the language, of the functional requirements, of basic logic. Sometimes, it’s management interference, and the slavish adherence to policy over practicality. Other times, it’s just lazy or sloppy work.
To close out the year, enjoy one of our popular articles from 2014. Happy holidays!
In the bowels of a business unit, a director got a great deal on a third party software package. He bought it, without talking to corporate IT, and then was upset when it couldn’t gracefully integrate with any of the corporate IT assets. Eager to throw good money after bad, the director hired his nephew’s consultancy to build an integration tool to make his new toy work.
"Maybe I need to order a generator with this one -- just in case I want to finish booting up the machine!" writes Matt R.
Seriously? Why are you reading this. Go do something with your family or your friends. There are more important things today than the internet.
To close things out for 2014, we're re-running our most popular articles. Without further ado, enjoy one of our most popular; this one originally ran in September.
Matteo recently interviewed a candidate that was employed elsewhere as an “architect”. His responses to the standard soft-skills questions sounded a bit rehearsed, which made Matteo suspicious, so he started asking some more technical questions, like: “What’s the difference between an interface and an abstract class?”
"I really need to look into a cash-out option," writes Alvin.
Andrew found this code on the product pages of a fairly popular automotive e-commerce website. It's called whenever an 'attribute' of a product (size, color, etc.) is selected or changed by the user.
The main focus of this code is to update a concatenation of the values of all currently selected attributes which are stored in a hidden form input field. Once it has done that, it hands off to another function to make an AJAX request with this concatenated value as a parameter.
Daniel writes, "Looking for world class talent? Sorry...you won't be finding it here."
When one of Felix G’s newest design customers decided that they were officially unhappy with their current web-agency, another company's loss was his gain.
His first assignment was a simple one - remove the code that displayed the website’s creator credits (something like 'developed by xyz') from an external website.
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