Proving That I Earned My Degree
It was about 48 hours ago that I was lamenting the fact that my printer/scanner/copier(/fax) couldn’t scan duplex from its document feeder, and that I would have some merging by hand to do if I needed to scan two-sided documents. Well, I encountered that situation today, and call my crazy, but I felt like paying $50 for a piece of software to do this was just a little excessive (and the only free options just seems to be trial copies of said expensive software). So, what’s a person to do? Well, if they went to school for four years to get a degree in Computer Science, what they do is write their own app to do whatever is it they want to. As it turns out, 20 minutes later (which includes the time it took to install VS C# 2008 Express), I had a program that met my needs perfectly. What honestly shocked me even more was the fact that the first time I ran it, it worked perfectly. That’s not to say that there aren’t bugs somewhere, but the first run was smooth sailing.
So, now that I have this app created, what else do I do with it? It’s UI is admittedly pretty sparse (I even prepopulate the two path fields with what I expect my files to be 99% of the time), but there are a lot of directions I could take it. Expand the format support, add in something liek a preview window so that I can see exactly what I’m getting into ahead of time, and this could be a semi-decent program. Apparently I could even charge up to $50 for it, but for some reason I just don’t see people paying that.