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It's a very welcome long weekend, here in Switzerland, and as the weather's a little brisk I decided to spend at least part of it building robots. Not the kind of robots you'd expect to see on Pier 9, but the kind of robots sold by our friends at LEGO: two different sets I've received […]
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I decided to dust off Visual Studio and write a quick AutoCAD app, this morning. It tackles a question received via a blog comment from Pankaj Potdar, over the weekend. I have two blocks with different attributes I want to merge them in single block, and I don't want to create any nested blocks. I […]
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As mentioned a few weeks ago, over the Easter school break I headed across with my family to Cuba. Cuba's really an interesting country. I could probably write weeks of posts about it, but I'll try to keep it brief and move onto other topics. We visited two parts of Cuba during our fortnight there: […]
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Tomorrow we're heading on an extended* family trip to Cuba. My thanks to President Obama for timing his trip to finish just before ours (apparently it was all a bit hectic). * It's an extended (2 week) trip with my extended (on my wife's side) family, so I suppose it's an extended2 family trip. I've […]
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After a nice week on the slopes – children in Neuchâtel have their annual "semaine blanche" around March 1st, the day the canton celebrates becoming a republic – I eased back into work this morning by heading across to Geneva for the 86th "Salon de l'Auto". I was there when the doors opened so I […]
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As part of the restructuring that went on at Autodesk, last week, I have a new role. This isn't a bad thing, thankfully: in fact it's the opposite… it's something I've been working towards for several years. I've been in the AutoCAD team for the last 4 years and was in the Autodesk Developer Network […]
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The last couple of weeks have been very interesting: partly for reasons that I'll go into in my next post, but also because I've had (or am having) the opportunity to visit three universities in Switzerland. My first visit, on Thursday of last week, was back to ZHdK – Zurich University of the Arts – […]
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It's been a hectic – but very fun – few days in Munich, working with a group of 60-70 developers from all over Europe who are getting started with Autodesk's cloud services. I'm particularly focused on those working with AutoCAD I/O, which means probably 5-6 companies in total. Here's a quick summary of some of […]
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The snow arrived, at last, and it's amazing. I spent the weekend on the slopes with my family before heading across to Zurich to hop on the last flight to Munich, last night. I had a sinking feeling, on arriving at the airport, as the information board said "More information at 20:15". This is generally […]
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Some of you may remember this series of posts from the beginning of the year (I also mentioned it in the last post). It showed how you might use AutoCAD and .NET (in this case via F#) to animate the Star Wars opening crawl for the first 6 movies. Back then I said I'd update […]