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I've spent the best part of the last two weeks in the Bay Area, which has been fantastic. It was great to attend Autodesk's annual, internal Tech Summit, both to network with colleagues and to find out about some of the really interesting projects being worked on within the company. It was also really good to reconnect with members of the AutoCAD Engineering and ADN teams. While there's been quite a lot of work over the last few weeks, there has also been some time for play: The evening social event at San Francisco's TechShop. Renting bikes in Napa Valley…
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It's a beautiful Whit Monday, here in Switzerland – and will probably be a beautiful Memorial Day, when I arrive in San Francisco, this afternoon. I'm heading across the pond to attend an internal technical conference and spend time with other members of my team over the coming fortnight. I have a couple of posts to finish up – one on WinRT, another on iOS, now that I'm able to deploy that version to my iPad 2 – before I wrap up the somewhat epic "cloud & mobile" series with a summary post. I'll see what I can get done…
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photo credit: rednivaram via photopin cc Most readers of this blog won't have realised (mainly because I queued up last week's blog posts in advance of my trip) that I was in India for the whole of last week. Not that I'm under any illusions that there are people out there wondering where I am, but I did want to talk a little about my trip – and my connection to India – as the topic of today's post. I've been visiting Bangalore since I was a child: my parents met when my father was working there as an ex-pat…
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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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What a great week! The highlight – and that's from a lot of great moments – was probably the AutoCAD + Kinect session: the demos were clearly fun to do, but there was a high degree of audience participation and we all laughed a lot. For those who weren't able to attend in person, I'm going to try to find some time to record the demos and upload them to YouTube. Watch this space. I'm now about to head home to Switzerland. For lots of very good reasons, I'm currently carrying the following electronic devices: MacBook Pro This is currently…
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We had some friends over for a Halloween party on Saturday. Inspired by a friend who loves this kind of illusion, we managed to put together a version of Pepper's Ghost, to entertain the guests and Trick or Treaters. It was simple enough: an LCD screen (we had fooled around with a projector, but this worked better), laid down in my daughter's play-house, with a sheet of Plexiglas angled at 45 degrees to reflect the screen's image – which from a distance made it look as though it was floating in the air inside the playhouse. …
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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've just returned from an amazing vacation in El Quseir (which I've now also seen written as Al Qusayr, El Qusair, Quesir, Qusseir, Qosseir, or Kosseir), on the Red Sea coast of Egypt. On the way back we spent a day in Cairo, visiting the pyramids and the incredible Museum of Egyptian Antiquities. I'm not officially back from vacation until Monday, but will be starting to get caught up on email and blog comments. In the meantime, here's a little panorama from our visit to the pyramids in Giza.
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I've been meaning to post on this topic for some time, and a recent comment reminded me to do so. As many of you will have noticed, when you do a straight copy & paste of code from this blog into Visual Studio, it comes with unwanted line feeds. For instance, taking some recently posted code using Internet Explorer 9: And pasting it into VS2010 results in unwanted linefeeds in the code: Less than ideal, to say the least. The reason this happens is probably the way the HTML gets formatted by the CopySourceAsHtml tool I use to get the…