One that certainly escaped my recent cull of one-third of all my RSS feeds was The Daily WTF, which subtitles itself "Curious Perversions in Information Technology".
Basically, it's about all the weirdnesses that managements and dumb programmers inflict on each other. Non-programmer may find it puzzling in the extreme, but anyone who's had even a nodding acquaintance with trying to wrangle a project will know that feeling. May even know the people.
It's worth a read for the "SQL Sentences" story (why not store all the SQL commands your company will use in a database, which then gets accessed when you need to do a query, though of course you have a list of access permissions for each query to make sure the person (program) executing it is allowed to).
Though David wasn't around when these changes were implemented, when he came onboard and heard the story he asked the Lead Developer if he'd ever heard of a Stored Procedure before.
"Yeah," he replied, "but I've heard they're a big pain to maintain."
Laughing? (If not, you just left.) OK, and now here's a one-liner:
I found this gem of a field in a database table for storing users' names: MiddleInitial NVARCHAR(255)
What about your favourite Code WTFs? Or sites devoted to them?
