Autodesk
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I hope readers of this blog were able to relax over the festive period – I certainly was. 🙂 I'll post something more technical, later in the week, but I just thought I'd start the year with a quick greeting post. On 2012… I expect 2012 to be a very interesting year for me, personally, as I transition into my new role within the company. I'm certainly excited to see what it brings (I'll have a better idea of what's in store within the coming weeks, I expect). I also expect 2012 to be another interesting year from a technology…
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As hinted in my last post, I have some news to share with you all. After sixteen and a half years with the ADN team (and for a reminder of my various jobs, check out this previous post or you might also watch the video on my about page), I'm moving on to pastures new. I have deeply loved my current role – working with an incredibly talented team and getting exposure to a broad range of issues experienced by development partners across our various products – so this was not an easy decision to make. To answer some of…
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So, here we are on Wednesday, day two of AU proper (although my team was busy with ADN-only sessions on Sunday and Monday). Yesterday was really fun: I was part of the "Meet the AutoCAD API Experts" panel (along with Stephen Preston, Albert Szilvasy, Mike Dickason, Bill Adkison, Davis Augustine and Fenton Webb), which is always a good session (and a privilege to spend some time alongside some of the brightest minds in CAD programming). I then had the honour of co-speaking a session on AutoCAD scripting with dave espinosa-aguilar, probably the all-time highest-rated AU speaker. It was really something…
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The Localization Services team at Autodesk – many of whom also work from our office in Neuchâtel – has launched a "crowdsourced" translation platform: the Autodesk Collaborative Translation Platform. This mechanism is intended to allow members of the Autodesk community to help us translate our software into different languages. The first project being hosted on the platform is for the Russian version of Homestyler. To participate in this project, you need to be over 18, proficient in Russian and in possession of an Autodesk ID. For other information on the platform, see the FAQ. This is really an exciting development,…
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While I'm working through the inevitable backlog of tasks that build up during a 2-week vacation, I thought I'd post something quickly about some of the events of the last fortnight. I'll get back on with AU preparation and related technical posts later this week, I hope. Firstly, a few people have asked me about our trip to Egypt. We spent the first big chunk of our holiday at the beach, relaxing, snorkelling and scuba-diving. I actually stayed away from any kind of electronic communication for the whole time we were in El Quseir: the only news that managed to…
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I arrived back home on Sunday afternoon from a really fun event: Autodesk Europe's annual 7-a-side football (i.e. soccer) tournament. This year it was held in Verona, Italy, which was a comfortable 5-6 hour drive from my home near Neuchâtel. This year I played for a team made up of employees from Autodesk's Global Services (to which ADN belongs) and Worldwide Marketing teams (two teams ended up being combined as both were a little short on players). Here's the pre-tournament team photo: The players (from left-to-right and back-to-front): Kean Walmsley, Jason Summerfield, Jeremy Tammik, Fenton Webb, Gary Wassell, Marat Mirgaleev,…
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I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Autodesk developer blogosphere to Doug Redmond, who has recently started a blog focused on programming and administering Autodesk Vault, It's All Just Ones and Zeros. Doug is a long-time contributor to Autodesk's development community, whether helping my team deal with complex API issues or presenting the Vault API at ADN events and at AU, he has a boundless passion for helping people customizing and developing with Autodesk Vault. If you're interested in working deeply with Vault technology – or are already doing so – then I'm sure that Doug's blog will…
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In today's post I thought I'd quickly mention a couple of useful resources. The first is the newly made-over Autodesk Labs site. You'll find lots of cool, new technology hosted on the site, including – in the next month or so – the ADN Plugin of the Month, as mentioned in this previous post. The Labs site is well worth checking out: there's plenty there that's genuinely useful as well as stuff that's just plain fun to play around with. 🙂 The second resource is our online documentation portal. This includes online product documentation (via the "online help" links) for…
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This is the fourth and final part of the series documenting my recent interview with John Walker. Where the first three parts looked at the early history of the company, the architectural evolution of AutoCAD and its APIs and Autodesk's strategy and eco-system, this part takes a look at past and future business opportunities for the company. I have not linked to terms previously linked to in the first part of the series, which should also be referred to for typographical conventions, if they're not clear. Part 1 - Autodesk's early history Part 2 - AutoCAD's architecture & APIs Part…
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This is the third part of the series documenting my recent interview with John Walker. Where the first part looked at the early history of the company and the second looked at the architectural evolution of AutoCAD and its APIs, this part focuses on Autodesk's business strategy and focus on its eco-system. I have not linked to terms previously linked to in the first part of the series, which should also be referred to for typographical conventions, if they're not clear. Part 1 - Autodesk's early history Part 2 - AutoCAD's architecture & APIs Part 3 - Autodesk's eco-system and…