AU
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If you're curious about the AU Virtual experience (perhaps you've signed up and are wondering what it's going to be like, perhaps you're thinking about signing up but would like to know what you're getting into, or perhaps you have no intention whatsoever of signing up but just want to know what 13,000+ other people are going to be doing next week 🙂 then check out this video: And if you end up attending AUv, I'm sure there are plenty of virtual seats left in my F# class! 🙂
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OK, I suppose the title only really works if you have a British accent and mispronounce Mr. Hurley's name, but anyway. 🙂 For those of you heading to AU, you may be interested in a rather fun offer being made by Shaan Hurley over on his blog. For $2,000 donated to charity (Susan G. Komen for the Cure, a foundation battling breast cancer) plus 2,000 followers on Twitter, Shaan will let someone shave his head. I, on the other hand, would let someone shave my head for a Sierra Nevada and a $5 casino chip, but then I suppose everyone…
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As mentioned in this previous post, at this year's Autodesk University the "Developer Track" has rightly been combined with the "Customization & Programming" track (it made sense to rationalise these two tracks which had a very similar style of class). So unlike in previous years, the sessions we're either presenting or helping coordinate are listed with the "CP" prefix. Here's a quick round-up of the AutoCAD-related physical classes, labs and panel sessions being presented either by my team or by members of Engineering (with my team helping coordinate): CP104-1 Using .NET 4.0 with AutoCAD Albert Szilvasy CP308-4 AutoCAD VBA to .NET…
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Seeing Jeremy's post from Friday, I decided to give you a quick update of where I am with my own preparation for this year's Autodesk University. I'm delivering two sessions, this year: CP9214-1 AutoCAD® .NET – Developing for AutoCAD Using F# CP208-1 AutoCAD® .NET – Developing for AutoCAD Using IronPython and IronRuby So yes, it seems as though I'm carving out a niche for myself as "the quirky languages guy". 🙂 The first one of these is actually a virtual session, and will be broadcast twice during the week of AU. It's one I presented already, last year, and here…
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Upload a video response to this video, Reasons to Attend Autodesk University, and you could win one of three conference passes (each valued at $2,395*): The sooner you upload it, the better, as the competition is driven by the number of views the video receives (and then, in the second round, by the number of "likes" on Facebook… all very 21st century… :-). For more information on the content, visit this page. Oh, and as a side benefit, winners will be able to attend classes delivered by me and members of my team. 🙂 * The early bird discount takes…
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I've been a bit remiss posting on our plans for this year's AU. At AU 2007 and 2008 my team organised and ran a separate Developer Track. Last year we had already hoped to fold our classes into the Customization & Programming track – mainly to avoid confusion from AU attendees - but it didn't quite happen. This year it finally has. Here are the tracks that we would probably have gathered under the Developer Track umbrella, if we were managing it in the same way this year. You will find them all in the AU Online voting system under…
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This post has come out of an interesting discussion I had with Jim Cameron at the ADN party at AU 2008. He mentioned an idea, which he kindly later reminded me of by email, which was to develop an AutoCAD equivalent for Inventor's LookAt functionality. I didn't know about LookAt before this discussion, but it seems it allows you to look at a particular face: you pick a face and it rotates the view and zooms in to centre it on the screen. Rather than try to attack the whole problem at once, this post tackles selecting a face (which…
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For those of you who were unable to attend various Developer Track sessions at this year's Autodesk University (or would just like a refresher for sessions you found useful), my team is beavering away at recording our various AU sessions as DevTV episodes. As a quick taste of how they'll (most likely) look, here's the first: Stephen Preston's popular "AutoCAD .NET Basics" session, which went by the session ID of DE205-4, this year. Here it is for view and for download (139.1 Mb). It's possibly a slightly larger session to stream or download than you may have seen in the…
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MI can safely say that this was my most enjoyable (and exhausting) Autodesk University so far. This post contains a "blow by blow" account of my involvement in this year's event, to give a feel for what it was like (from my perspective, at least). Monday Before AU proper I attended two great events: our ADN conference - attended by upwards of 400 people - and Autodesk's inaugural Design Computation Symposium. I found it very interesting to see some of the capabilities of algorithmic design, an area I've started to get involved in and a theme that continued during the…
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Here are a few clips I took last night, just before and during the closing party at Autodesk University 2008. In the lobby at The Venetian... The closing seconds of the Design Slam at the AU 2008 party. The Design Slam is an event where designers - in this case industrial designers - compete live on stage to solve a particular design challenge using Autodesk software. All in front of several thousand people with pumping tunes... And what party is complete without trampolining snowboarders?
