I just noticed my blog and site was added to Shaan Hurley's blog, .. pretty cool since I'm a Hurley fan!
http://autodesk.blogs.com/between_the_lines/blogs_i_read.html 

 Anyhow, I need to update these sites BADLY, .. I'm considering someone else in to help submit links to help start driving content. I'm open for suggestions..

I'm also posting this 'cause also on Shaan's blog post is a TON of really good sites, so go check them out!

On May 1st we were mentioned over at http://blog.jtbworld.com.  Which is pretty cool because I have been a long time follower of Jimmy's work. He's a really smart guy who's does an excellent job of keeping his finger on the pulse of the CAD world.

Anyhow,

Thanks for the post Jimmy!

Here was my reply on Jimmys blog: 

Jimmy,
Thanks for the mention, what I'm trying to do with CadKicks.com is bring the CAD community together, I find it difficult to gather information for the different CAD/BIM offerings in one PLACE, without product affiliation.

The intent of CadKicks.com is not to regurgitate BLOGs, it is to provide a central spot for users to decide what CAD-related news is important enough to share with others.

I also think its important to note that the site doesn't just cater to the Autodesk world, but other software applications that otherwise folks would not be exposed to.

I'm trying to get the word out, and your blogpost is definitely a big help.

 I had written some really cool AutoCAD/LISP/VBA hybrid code which allowed the user to Print Silently (using the CAD file name ) or Print to PDF with a prompt for Filename. All my code had to do was change a few settings in the PDF995 INI and presto, it was working well EXCEPT .. I noticed if the drawing had periods in it the name of the file woud truncate at the first period.

 After I contacted PDF995  the suggested I try adding the foowing to my INI file:

 Strip Extension=0

Sure enough, that did the trick.

Quick little routine to Convert a Directory of LSP to FAS. I found this Online and decided to modify it for MANUALLY setting the paths.

<sub>; ConvToFAS = Convert Lsp To Fas
; Cool little APP to convert a DIR of LSP to FAS
; Homepage : Adesu <Ade Suharna> http://www.yuasa-battery.co.id
; You MUST LOAD VLIDE FIRST

; Edited by Jose Guia - SET the Source and Dest manually instead of prompting
; http://www.cadkicks.com</sub>

_{(defun c:ConvToFAS (/ lsp fas lst)
(vl-load-com)
  (setq lsp "C:/legacy_source_lisp_files/Compile/");;Source Folder
  (setq fas "C:/legacy_source_lisp_files/Compile/FAS/");;DEST Folder
  (setq lst (vl-directory-files lsp "*.lsp" 1))
    (if
      lst
      (progn
      (foreach x lst
      (vlisp-compile
      'st
      (strcat lsp x)
      (strcat fas (substr x 1 ( - (strlen x) 4)) ".fas")
      )
      ) ; foreach
      ) ; progn
      (alert "No FILES")
    ) ; if
  (princ)
) ; defun}

I'm thinking of firing up a FREE no frills jobs.cadkicks.com , if you guys have any openings drop me a line and I'll add ya to the list.

Howdy folks,
 As I alluded to in my previous post, I  am no longer a BIG fish in a small bowl, I am now a small fish in a BIG bowl.

 I have now spent my first FULL week in my new position, my fancy new title is as follows:

 Jose Guia
CAD Applications Engineer, CAD/BIM Services
NELSON
Dallas, TX 75251
www.nelsononline.com

Expect a lot more posts to come in the following weeks.

 I know this site is still in its infancy so many of you "Application Engineers" may not get this but I'd like to ask a question anyhow. If you are a CAD Application Engineer, what exactly does that mean to you? What are your duties specifically? I ask because I just accepted a job as an Application Engineer at a bigger company and I'm curious to know exactly what is expected of me.

 At my previous place of employment, where I was the IT Manager / CAD Manager / Database Developer (SQL) / Web Developer (ASP.NET), I had always told my fellow drafters that if I ever won the lottery my dream job would be to just create applications without the hassle of any of the other IT-related tasks. So when this new opportunity came along my resume matched what they were looking for to a tee.

 Going from ONE discipline (structural engineering) to a company where I will be responsible for supporting multi-disciplines I kind of get the feeling its going to overwhelm me. But I've always liked a good challenge so we'll see how it goes. 

Howdy,

  Ok, I do believe I am almost ready to unleash this badboy to the masses. I've put a lot of time into this site and I hope you enjoy using it as much as I have creating it for US!

  I got a question for ya, .. where do you go for your CAD info? Do you go to Forums, or RSS feeds from the different sites. 

  The goal of this site is to get YOU GUYS to share with us any sites/blogs/articles that you guys find interesting.

 Let see, how about the .. CREDITS:

     Gavin Joyce (http://www.dotnetkicks.com/, http://blog.incremental.ie/)
        Without access to his source code and extremely knowledgeable support staff I would have had to outsource this site to India or something just to get the ball rolling.

     1and1.com (http://www.1and1.com)
        Without these guys I'd probably would have set this thing up on a 486 Thinkpad with no screen hooked up to an etch-a-sketch (I know that makes no sense). They have VERY, VERY competetive pricing on hostiing solutions.

     Wikipedia (come on you should know how to get there ..)
        I am pretty familiar with the big-dogs in the CAD industry but thanks to wiki-wiki-wikipedia I am now an expert in ALL-THINGS-CAD and stitching.  
 

So there you have it, I will try and keep this thing updated as best as I can, .. but no promises.

Enjoy,
Jose Guia