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Friday, June 11, 2004 2:49 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - tblCalendar + GMail Invites :-D

TheDailyWTF.com: Yesterday, Larry Osterman had to go and take the fun out of yesterday's WTF. So Larry (and everyone else) I hereby issue a challenge for you to justify the actions of Programmer X, as described by reader Jakeypoo : I'll be the first one...
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Thursday, June 10, 2004 2:15 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - Array Initializer

It's that time of the day again. Some programmers feel that the code they produce is as much artwork as it is function. I guess I can agree with that, especially after viewing Anges Martin's The City at my local art museum, which reminds us that anything...
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Wednesday, June 09, 2004 1:03 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - Diet Software

Your daily TheDailyWTF WTF Teaser: I didn't have any non-support-related or non-code-snippet submissions, and I'm trying to shoot for a bit of variety here :-). So, here's a WTF from yours truly. For the past year or so, I've been working with a client...
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:04 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - StripChar() = "Extreme NIH"

Just incase you're not feeling like typing in TheDailyWTF.com : For those not aquianted with NIH, it stands for N ot I nvented H ere and refers to the tendancy of programmers to avoid using third party tools because, after all, it's something that they...
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Monday, June 07, 2004 2:18 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF ... But It's All Plugged In

Your partial cross post from TheDailyWTF.com : I've been programming for quite a long time - since I was about twelve or so. Of course no one in there right mind would hire a seventeen year-old programmer (even one with five years experience), so I got...
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Friday, June 04, 2004 2:10 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - Class IntWrapper

From, of course, TheDailyWTF.com : I've had the pleasure of working with a developer who strongly believes that all classes external to your assembly (even core framework classes) should be wrapped in an internal class. The idea goes something like this...
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Thursday, June 03, 2004 11:34 AM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - Unregistering a COM DLL

From TheDailyWTF.com : Yesterday , we learned that there is an entire Hall of Shame dedicated to bad UIs. But, I must say, I didn't see anything in there that would last half a round with The FileMatrix . I am still completely mystified by that UI .....
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Wednesday, June 02, 2004 11:53 AM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - Enter The Matrix

From TheDailyWTF : No, not the the uburbulous deprodication errebelously conceived by "The Architect". I'm talking about the other matrix - The FileMatrix . Agent "G. Nickerson" was kind enough to send in a link to this UI where "simplicity" and "ease...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004 12:06 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - That Greedy Sytem Idle Process

Here's an excerpt from today's post: SysAdmin: “Hey, we have some trouble again with the web server – the page are loading really slowly.” I immediately call him on the phone… Me: “OK – have you had a look at what’s...
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Thursday, May 27, 2004 2:48 PM

Your Daily Cup of WTF - færsla

Reader Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson , whose middle name means Glacier (now, how awesome is that!), sent along this chunk of C-code, straight from Iceland. At first, this block of code made absolutely no sense to me. What can I say? My Icelandic...
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