Robert McLaws: FunWithCoding.NET

I just got work that a company called ScanSoft (makers of Dragon NaturallySpeaking) are working on a plugin to Office 2003 to convert PDF files into editable documents. You can sign up for the plugin Beta at ScanSoft. Hook me up! WOO HOO!

You know, I have this serious problem. I'm sure most developers feel the same way. let me elaborate.

I'm testing my new fitaly keyboard. It's pretty cool. I'm not typing faster just yet but I'm getting used to it. It really well thought out layout. I'm going to try to work on a whole article for builder.com using it. I haven't decided if I like this better than MS Transcriber or not. We'll see. You should check it out at  http://www.fitaly.com. This took 4 minutes and 12 seconds to write.

I found a very interesting article on the .NET Framework from Yale. Good read.

I was surfing the web tonight, looking at several things that have caught my interest over the past few days. Every once in a while I like to see what a search for my name comes up with on the various search engines. What I came up with surprised me. A great many people are linking to me. I saw a few places where I was only one of a handful of .NET resources. While I like being outspoken and opinionated, because many people find my opinions interesting, I don't want those opinions being linked with me as a .NET resource.

I got my PocketPC a few days ago. Man this is one cool piece of equipment. I am totally geeked out now. I bought it off of Brady for $700, and man did I get some cool stuff to go with it.

How to change CSV to XML using XSLT. This will come in handy when I rewrite GenX.NET to be xml-based.

Scott Guthrie informs me that a fix for the infamous DoPostback bug in 1.1 will be available within the next few days. Apparently, they ported a QFE patch from the 1.0 codebase, and it reintroduced the bug into the system. At this point they are working on an installer for the QFE.