coding standards
I work in IT, but on the operations side of things, not development. Part of my job is to make sure the dev team get clear requirements for the programs they are writing for us.

Asking them to conform to coding standards is like lobbing a hand grenade into the room and slamming the door shut. It normally leads to massive civil war, with week long battles about how functions should be named, how many spaces nested loops should be indented by, which editor to use, and where to place brackets. Hilarious!
(Simian Typewriter Supplies Pty. Ltd. is house hunting in the neighborhood of infinity, Fri 20 May 2011, 12:56, 14 replies)

The manager of your dev team is shit then
Force them to conform to the company standard. Failure to comply within the 3 month probationary == dismissal.
(Bushcricket, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:01, closed)

Hahahaha.
Worst. Management. Advice. EVAH.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:12, closed)

;)

(Bushcricket, Fri 20 May 2011, 14:23, closed)

Oh very much yes
We call them "Religious Wars".

Actually the biggest, nastiest Religious War broke out over whether a Jaffa Cake was a biscuit...

(All our workstations are named after biscuits. I'm writing on Garibaldi!)
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:18, closed)

They are cakes, and were proved so in court :p
(The_Mighty_Spleen, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:29, closed)

Something to do
with them going stale rather than soft.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:41, closed)

Yes, and in fact this case appeared *just* as the war was dying down
Thus inflaming it all over again.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 20 May 2011, 14:13, closed)

dont care...
as they as the CHUFFING INDENT THEIR CODE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

not much to ask is it?
(Lip Up Fatty Fatty Reggae still loves BBQ food on, Fri 20 May 2011, 13:55, closed)

The guy sitting next to me doesn't comment his code
Unfortunately he's my project leader, so I can't insist.

Even worse, he changes things but leaves the comments unchanged, so they are no longer correct..

Grrr...!
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 20 May 2011, 14:14, closed)

But the code
is the comments. If you can't follow it, it's just that you're not smart enough to comprehend the elegance of the solution.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Fri 20 May 2011, 18:28, closed)

Oh for fuck's sake
"emvee, can you have a look at this code and tell me what I'm doing wrong?"

every fucking time, they've not closed a div tag or something

which, if they'd indented properly, or just clicked Dreamweaver -> Command -> Apply Source Formatting, they'd be able so see clearly
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 20 May 2011, 17:15, closed)

Dreamweaver?
ffs.
( argyleblanket The man on the roof works for me, Fri 20 May 2011, 18:28, closed)

<subject>
HTML is not code, it's markup. ffs.
(Simian Typewriter Supplies Pty. Ltd. is house hunting in the neighborhood of infinity, Sat 21 May 2011, 7:11, closed)

The best editor is obviously JOE.

( idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Sat 21 May 2011, 20:06, closed)