The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

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by Remy Porter in Announcements on 2015-03-30

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Regularly Expressing Hate

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2015-03-23

Perl is jokingly referred to as a “write-only language”. This is because Perl’s primary solution to any problem is to throw a regular expression at it. Regexes are powerful, but cryptic.

Imagine RJ’s joy at starting a new contract for an OCR/document-management system that makes heavy use of regexes. Even better, the system doesn’t use widely implemented “Perl-compatible regular expressions” syntax, but instead, uses its own, slightly tweaked version.

79 comments - Last comment @ 2015-03-27

The Daily WTF: LIVE!

by Remy Porter in Announcements on 2015-03-18

You’ve read the posts. You’ve submitted your own WTFs. Now it’s time to take it to the next level: The Daily WTF: Live is coming to Pittsburgh, PA.

In the style of The Moth or Risk! podcasts, we’re getting our fellow IT drones up on stage, to share their tales of their worst WTFs, their successes, and true tales of life in the IT trenches.

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Waiting for File IO…

by Remy Porter in CodeSOD on 2015-03-11

Trisha had the misfortune to inherit some old Cold Fusion code. One particular block needed to see if a file existed before it continued, and apparently the original developer really wanted to be patient and make sure the file was there, so they wrote this:

19 comments - Last comment @ 2015-03-12

Spared No Expense

by Remy Porter in Feature Articles on 2015-03-05

Renee’s company was a Silicon Valley managed services company. They needed the best data-center they could find to house their infrastructure, and cost was not an object. They loaded up a dump truck full of money and went shopping for the most expensive hosting they could find.

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