Autodesk
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Some months ago I received a question from a developer about the Autodesk App Store: he questioned whether it was worth investing the effort of placing his product there. While this is clearly something that people have to decide for themselves, the numbers are certainly indicating it's valuable: the App Store team tells me they've just hit the "3,000,000 downloads" mark (and may by now have also hit the "3,000 apps" mark, too). For many developers this is proving to be a very valuable mechanism for reaching Autodesk customers around the world. If you're interested in learning more about the…
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On Wednesday morning, I woke up to the news of Autodesk restructuring, with approximately 13% of employees impacted worldwide. In my years at Autodesk I've been through this more than a few times, and it's hard not to feel a little detached when you're on a 6-month trip with your family. I decided to go into the Bangalore office, during the afternoon, to meet up with old friends and colleagues and to meet the team providing support for our development partners (whether dealing with programming questions or helping partners get their products into the App Store). While in the office,…
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For those of you who – like me – weren't able to travel to Las Vegas for this year's Forge DevCon, I thought I'd do a quick round-up of the major news that I could extract over the wire. I'm sure there will be further blog posts from the Forge team summarising more of things I couldn't see – not being there in person – but this will hopefully be of some use to people, at least. To kick things off, I suggest reading this blog post. It talks about some high-level items, such as additions to the platform, the…
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As much as I hate compressing so much into a single post, I don't see any other option if I'm to bring you all up-to-date. So please accept my apologies for not doing justice to New Zealand's absolutely incredible south island. In this post we'll talk about the first part of the journey through the south island, from Picton to Christchurch. I'll cover the journey from Christchurch to Queenstown in the next post. Here's a quick view of our journey southwards, for context. Our adventure on the south island started the Saturday before last. We took the 2.45pm Interislander ferry…
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We arrived in Wellington on Friday just in time for lunch. We parked – based on the recommendations on CamperMate, as ever – at the Barnett Street car park. Parking a motorhome for 24 hours down by the wharf in Wellington costs just $30 NZD. I left my family for an hour to meet up with Jason Howden for a quick lunch at Mojo Waterfront, and then met back up with them afterwards to go and visit the Weta Cave. This is a nice tour over at the Weta Workshop that gives a behind-the-scenes look at the company and the…
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It's been really great to be back in the Bay Area. My wife and I lived here from 2000 to 2003 – back when (in retrospect, although it didn't seem so at the time) it was affordable to do so – and being back here is in many ways like coming home. Old friends have gone to great pains to make us feel welcome: it was fantastic to stay briefly up in Novato – taking advantage of the weather in Marin County – and our time in San Francisco itself has been excellent, if a little on the cool side.…
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I have to admit it's a little bittersweet to be talking about this year's Forge DevCon: I've been involved in helping schedule some great classes for the AR/VR track, but I won't be presenting myself – or even present at the event, at all – this year. But it's all in a good cause: our big trip is progressing well, and – in any case – I've had enough time in Las Vegas for the year. 🙂 For those of you attending, you can now go ahead and register. If you want to attend just the DevCon, you will be…
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If you're working in the BIM space and are thinking about developing a cloud-based application that works with BIM 360 and Forge, there's an online hackathon that may be of interest to you. In fact it may well be of interest even if you're not thinking of building such an app in the immediate future: these events are a great opportunity to learn about Autodesk platform technology and consider whether it might be useful at some point down the line. The hackathon kicked off a week ago on August 1st and runs until September 30th. You have until then to…
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I enjoy certain aspects of camping. I won't say it's my favourite thing in the world, but there are things about it that I appreciate. Things I like: Chats around campfires The lack of showers Drinking a beer or two (also around the campfire) Waking up in nature Seeing our kids playing together without electronics Things I don't like: Being either too cold or hot (in Yellowstone we were both: we went to bed too hot and woke up freezing) Biting insects Setting up tents in crappy weather Crappy weather in general Here's a quick video I recorded of our…
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I had an email from Ron Fritz, CEO of our good partner Tech Soft 3D, the other day. They're struggling to fill a few roles, and Ron reached out to see whether I knew anyone. I suggested I could do better than that and post on this blog to see if any of its readers out there are interested in what Ron had to say. Here's the bulk of Ron's email: I'm reaching out to see if you have any recommendations for some positions we have open and are struggling to fill. First, we're looking for a strong Product Manager…