We got a lot of good submissions this week, including some examples of test-in-prod we're saving for a special edition. Not too many of the usual NaN/Null/Undefined sort, but we did also get a small rash of time failures. But frist, Henk highlights the curious case of QNAP's email subscription management page (which appears to be outsourced)....

Back in the heady days of the DotCom Bubble, startups were thick on the ground, and Venture Capital money was a flood- lifting startups atop a tsunami only to crash them back into the ground a short time later. Taliesyn once worked for one such startup. Taliesyn's manager, Irving, was an expert in AI. In the age of the DotCom Bubble, this meant Irving...

Michael has a confession. Once upon a time, a very long time ago, he needed to write some JavaScript to serialize data and send it as part of a request. The challenge for Michael is that he didn't actually know JavaScript or what its built in functions could do and the task was already past the deadline by the time it got assigned to him. function...

I've known a surprising number of developers who say, "Why use any higher level abstractions, you can just do this all in C, and the code will be cleaner and easier to read." Sometimes, they're right. Other times… not so much. And then there are the developers who find C too abstract for their tastes, and eschew things like structs. That's what Renee...

It's a holiday in the US today, so as per tradition, we reach back through the archives. Today is a classic of code generation gone horribly, horribly wrong. Original. --Remy It’s an old joke that Perl is a “write only language”. Despite some of its issues, back in the early 2000s, Perl was one of the best options out there for scripting languages...

...and we'll cry though we really don't want to. Celebrant Joe cheered "Happy birthday DailyWTF! My gift to you, yet another date related Error'd for the pile."   Studious Gearhead is learning from dummies. "I sure hope this lecture gets rescheduled," he says.   Sandman Mark W. sang a song of x pence. "The BetterSleep...