I kicked some major coding butt today. I was going to start marching around in a circle fist pumping.

Basically I took over, what sounded like, a horrible project hooking into an outlook mail box, parsing each email in MIME format, snagging the pdf attached, and saving it all to database (and then deleting it). The guy was all up in arms about illegal characters.. so far I found one and that condition took care of any future ones.

We'll see how it flies with the boss tomorrow.