One more thing...
I don't know if I can call it a pleasure, but I have a habit of writing numerous swearwords in the comments of whatever code I may be writing. It does bring me great pleasure, however when I run the programs I have written and encounter an error calling me a 'maggot faced pig-fucking cunt' and not knowing what the hell I did wrong.

I am a much better coder now, but damn anyone to hell that wants me to stop swearing in any of my error messages. There's something quite pleasing about telling myself 'you fucked up' in an offensive a way as possible.

This has backfired slightly, as a piece of my university coursework some years ago involved using Java to write an octal calculator program. It was only very recently that i had a quick browse of the old code and noticed that I'd set the title bar of the window to

"It's a Fucking Calculator"

Oops. I had a feeling that work warranted a higher score than it recieved. It was a fucking calculator. It fucking worked, and it fucking worked in base eight. fuck base eight...

What?
(Lythium deals in lead, my friend., Mon 17 Mar 2008, 17:14, 5 replies)

On a similar vein
I used to take extreme pleasure coding core parts of systems using only Welsh for method names, variables and comments.

Although possibly childish, this filled me with what can only be described as orgasmic glee - especially when the system I was working on was our ticketing system inherited from the German arm of the company (German method names, variables and comments).

*sigh*

Those were the days.
( rofl harris, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 17:22, closed)

This has caused me to laugh quite hard.

( Bob Todd whee, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 17:40, closed)

I have done similar, though not quite as offensive.
I once left a debug message in a program that went out to a customer. It said 'I AM A COW!'.

I almost forgot about it until the customer actually used the feature in question. And then I got a phone call asking why his computer was telling him it was a cow.
(Half of Stephen Fry's right buttock pissed on your dog on, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 21:25, closed)

Be careful...
I once released some software into user test which displayed the error message "cunt" if you entered an invalid date. That didn't go down too well.

Also, we once had to ship about 100k lines of source code off to MS as we couldn't diagnose a problem with it or reproduce the issue in a test harness. Emails with the code zipped up and attached kept getting blocked by the email profanity scanner, and it took us a week of going through the source getting rid of all of the instances of "strBollocks" and "'// Sort this shit out later" to get it sorted.

Happy days.
(theweapon never ever bloody anything ever, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 22:36, closed)

Someone I know did something similar
They had some code in a client's public website... something to do with calling SQL database entries via the URL (www.whateverwebsiteitwas.com/file.php?id=12 for example).
If the wrong number was put in, it displayed an error message saying YOU'VE BUGGERED IT UP, YOU KNOB.

This had been sat in the code for about 18 months until a shocked customer found it and pointed it out. God only knows how many other people had seen it and took their business elsewhere.
( Mike Fishcake teamfishcake.co.uk - better than your mum's face, Tue 18 Mar 2008, 15:24, closed)