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Autodesk has maintained a health dashboard for its cloud products for quite some time. The good news for Forge developers is that – just in time for next week's Accelerator in Barcelona – Forge has been added as a line item: Given the internal response to the technical issues we experienced during the last Accelerator […]
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Most of my team has been 100% focused on an event taking place in Toronto, this week, the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (or SimAUD). This is a really interesting conference for people working in our space: I'm looking forward to attending myself, at some point. As the only non-Toronto based member […]
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I'm writing this on a train to Geneva airport from where I'll hop across to the UK for a week. This afternoon I have a meeting in London at the British Library, after which I'll be checking into the Hilton London Metropole where Autodesk is holding its 9th (at least I think that's right, if […]
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This one almost passed me by, but I did remember just in time. Have a great Start Wars Day, everyone! photo credit: saoulsliberty Just few days Chewie ! via photopin (license)
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We've crossed a pretty big milestone in the plans for my family's round the world trip for the latter half of 2017: we've actually booked flights. Here's how the latest location tracker looks: You can compare this with the more speculative plan from last time – which still holds good for most areas – to […]
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I have some big news. My wife and I have decided to take our three children out of school for a semester and travel around the world for six months. We'll be leaving at the beginning of July and spending a month in each of North America, South America, the South Pacific, ANZ, South Asia […]
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Autodesk turned 35 years old, today. To commemorate this event, Shaan has suggested we all wear our oldest Autodesk shirt. I know I have an R14 ARX T-shirt somewhere, but I can't seem to find it (it was always about 5 sizes too big, so it may well have been thrown out). The best I […]
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Happy New Year, everyone! This is my first day back after two full fantastic weeks off. We were up in the Bernese Oberland for the full 16 days and even managed to ski (or – in my case – snowboard) for 13 of them, despite an initial lack of snow. At the beginning of the […]
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It's foggy and grey here in Switzerland, but thanks to the joy of mixed reality it's always snowing when you want it to be. If only it worked on the slopes! All the very best to this blog's readers for the festive season. Have a wonderful, relaxing break – those of you who […]
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Things are moving ahead regarding the VR room we're building at Autodesk in Neuchatel. Come mid-January we'll be ready to welcome guests to the Neuchatel office and get them excited about the potential of applying Virtual Reality technology in the design space. This week we had Joel Pennington visit from the Autodesk LIVE team in […]