Remembering the Wires – The Daily WTF

As we saw yesterday, padding can be difficult. Jasmine received a number of tickets all complaining that the ASP .Net application file was taking too long to download. Users often…

Odoo Export survey responses to Excel user manual

Odoo Export Survey Answers in Excel – In business it is very important to know the role of the other party so that you can further improve yourself by working…

Magento 2 Coupon Maker Guide

Magento 2 Coupon Product Builder allows admin to create special product offers for customers and combines different website promotions in one central place. This makes it easier for users to…

A little about the HP3000

Today’s anonymously submitted story is a case where WTF isn’t the code itself, per se. This could probably be CodeSOD, and we’ll get to the code, but there’s much more…

Error: ROUS

I don’t think they exist. Picky Chris P. he wants more choices, a scathing “Keep using that word, I don’t think it means what you think it means.” romantic Ryan…

Land of Return – The Daily WTF

Let’s say you have a database table that contains a list of countries. Given the primary key of a country in that table – an arbitrary ID field – you…

CodeSOD: maximum character width

One of the “features” of the Oracle database is that, in addition to the “beautiful” PL/SQL language for building stored procedures, you can also write stored procedures in Java. Now,…

Lab Upgrade – The Daily WTF

Unfortunately for Elena, the laboratory information management system (LIMS) her team used was discontinued by the vendor, Initech. She is a biochemist working in the pathology department, and this software…

CodeSOD: Pretty much POE

“QPirate” fixed a bug with PO version information. The format should have been “Revision#.Version#”, essentially “major” and “minor” versions for various steps as the PO made its way through the…

Name a valid email – The Daily WTF

Properly validating an email address, according to the specification, is actually surprisingly difficult. This is partly because there are many features in an email address that no one ever uses.…