The Daily WTF: Curious Perversions in Information Technology

Code Snippet Of the Day (CodeSOD) features interesting and usually incorrect code snippets taken from actual production code in a commercial and/or open source software projects.

The Lesser Date

by Jake Vinson in CodeSOD on 2008-07-30

Generally when Jared has to compare two dates, he'll do something simple like "if (date1 < date2) ..." A contractor no longer under his company's employ had his own unique approach...

112 comments - Last comment @ 2008-09-26

A Bit of Closure

by Alex Papadimoulis in CodeSOD on 2008-07-28

"After our UI developer left," Danny writes, "I was tasked with figuring out why one of our admin pages would get stuck in the middle of the loading screen."

"I know creating named functions for every callback can be a pain, but this a little ridiculous...

58 comments - Last comment @ 2008-09-10

tblTimesheet

by Alex Papadimoulis in CodeSOD on 2008-07-23

Not too long ago, Erik was hired to do extend and maintain a timesheet application for an employment agency. It was an ASP/VBScript web-app with data that lived in the Everything Database: a single SQL Server database filled with random tables from all sorts of various applications.

After paging through the tables, Erik found a few that seemed to be for the timesheet application. The first one he opened up was tblTimesheet.

127 comments - Last comment @ 2014-05-04

I'm Dave, Oh Yeah!

by Alex Papadimoulis in CodeSOD on 2008-07-21

Originally posted in the sidebar, "Throgdor the Bold" was having a few JavaScript issues on Houston Chronicle's site and took a peek at the source code. At the bottom of their utils.js, he noticed this...

setTimeout(check4Dave,2000);
function check4Dave() {
  if (document.cookie.match('ImDaveOhYeah')) {
    s=document.body.appendChild(document.createElement('script'));
    s.id='fs';
    s.language='javascript';
    s.src='http://www.chron.com/apps/emdjcs/specialDave.js';
  }
}

93 comments - Last comment @ 2014-09-13

Yes, the Table is Still There

by Alex Papadimoulis in CodeSOD on 2008-07-16

"Having recently upgraded my forum software," Kinta wrote, "I noticed that my site had been running incredibly slow."

"Upon further investigation, I found that that the following code was being run once for each and every comment on a page, whenever ever a forum thread was opened.

66 comments - Last comment @ 2008-08-05

Document Dis & Naked in the CIA?

by Alex Papadimoulis in CodeSOD on 2008-07-07

Document Dis (from Lawrence)

When I was working at my first job, we had gotten the display code worked on by one of our subcontractors. When perusing the codebase, I came across one small source file which had the following near the top of the file:

56 comments - Last comment @ 2008-07-11

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