Tech & Work

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

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

In 2024, Artificial Intelligence (AI) hit the limelight with major advancements. The problem with reaching common knowledge and so much…

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

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…

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

A number of companies have announced major changes to their executive leadership last month. Here are a couple of the…

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

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