Coder Zero

Encountered a bug where if a user uploads a photo, and then rotates the photo, and then rotates the photo again, the second rotation produce...

While removing Internet Explorer 7 and 8 hacks from our codebase, I encountered the following comments: - DIE IE7 DIE DIE DIE - without t...

Found the following in a unit test: private static final String HDP_MESSAGES = "0000000000000000000000000000"; When I added a ...

Found some interesting code comments today: try { params.put("bed", propertyInfo.getAttributes().getBedrooms().toString()); } ...

Encountered some technical documentation that instructed to change a property value in a file. To find the property, it instructed to look f...

Had to follow a chain of eight files across three different repositories to change a static word on a webpage.

Somebody thought pt, il, ntfc, grpd, bfc, hs, hd, nt, ur, pd, lb, ds, op, so, st, blb, bfe, bbs, vs, ut, cy, and et were good variable names...

Found the following code comment today: "There is so much duplication in this code with other files in the mobile directory that it h...

While investigating a bug, I discovered that the problem was caused by tightly coupled code under assumptions that no longer hold. When I fo...

In pretty much every software company, there is an existing codebase. And the daily job of the programmers in these companies is to build up...

After another day under the stranglehold of my nemesis, I cannot help but wonder, "Who is Coder Zero?"

Once again, Coder Zero's presence was felt throughout the day, like a thorn in my side.

Today was another uphill battle with Coder Zero.