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Alice has the dubious pleasure of working with SalesForce. Management wants to make sure that any code is well tested,…

So, I love drawing birds with code. Inspired by my brother’s love for birdwatching, I admire the uniqueness of their…

Rob’s co-worker needed to write a loop that iterated across every element in an array. This very common problem, and…

One of the long-tenured developers, Douglas at Patrick’s company left, which meant Patrick was called upon to pick up that…

The weather isn’t the only thing that’s balmy around this parts. For instance Bruce, who likes it hot. “Westford, MA…

Phil’s company hired a contractor. It was the typical overseas arrangement: bundle up a pile of work, send it off…

Today’s anonymous submitter supplies us with a classic antipattern: padding via switch: string TransactionOrder = (string)dr[“TransactionOrder”].ToString().Trim(); switch (TransactionOrder.Length) { case…

Joseph sends us a tried and true classic: bad date handling code, in JavaScript. We’ve all seen so much bad…

Michael had a co-worker who was new to the team. As such, there was definitely an expected ramp-up time. But…