Переводы на русский язык юмористических статей о программах, программистах и технологиях.

It was fall of 1995 and everyone was gearing up for the 1996 tax season. After years of maintenance of a DOS-based tax application, TaxQuik -- as we'll call the company -- had to get with the times. New, spunky companies were building tax software...

Go ahead Michael Fulker, make your move. I'll count to one. "I was obeying my wife and doing some research into what would happen to our daughter who had swallowed a penny (because, you never know, she might not poop it out)" P. Jam...

Diego G. lives in Argentina and is working with a developer from the USA on a PHP project. Recently they were discussing the merits of handling the communication from the backend to the frontend via XML or JSON. The system used XML elsewhere alrea...

Ever since the first Free Sticker Week ended back in February '07, I've been sending out WTF Stickers to anyone that mailed me a SASE or a small souvenir. More recently, I've been sending out the coveted TDWTF Mugs for truly awesome souvenirs. Not...

Having worked in support for years, Ben has amassed quite the compendium of quick stories. Double-Click on My Computer I was on a call with a lady who was having Internet connectivity issues. I listened to her describe what was happening and was ...

"I work for a software development house that creates business software, maintaining legacy MFC applications," Graf writes. "We recently received an issue where a filter-toggle wouldn't switch back and forth, never changing from its...

This year’s Corporate Technology Expo was no different than the ones for years previous. Various departments gathered in the company’s large, wood-paneled group meeting hall and highlighted their top projects and initiatives that were ...

“Just give me a damn status!” growled Murray, the aging IT project manager who everyone thought would have been retired by now. In fairness, the fifty-nine year old’s job performance hadn’t waned one bit through his decades...

I don't know, Dexter, I don't see anything weird about getting $50 fast cash... ...oh, now I get it: This is the error message John R. gets whenever he has a typo in his password. I'm pretty sure his password isn't actually "injustice...

-rw-r--r--. If that looks familiar to you, skip this and the next paragraph. OK, now that it's just you and me, Bill Gates, it is an example of Unix file permissions. The example given means that the user (owner) can read/write to the file, and ot...