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This year's Autodesk football tournament was excellent – congratulations to the IPG 1 team, this year's well-deserving winners! (I've included a picture from their 2-1 quarter-final victory over us, below.) Towards the end of our last game of the day (thankfully) I managed to sustain a thigh injury after a collision with Fenton (he was playing for the GS-ISM team, while I was playing for Swiss 2). This made walking around pretty painful for the next few days, and certainly made the drive up to Brittany (with an overnight stay at a fantastic guest-house in Blois to break up the…
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I'm hopefully sunning myself on the beaches of Brittany, at this point, but here's some information that Mikako Harada kindly brought to my attention. Adam Nagy has put together a fantastic series of posts on the AEC DevBlog that I think will be of general interest: Revit model viewer for iOS – part 1 Revit model viewer for iOS – part 2 Revit model viewer for iOS – part 3 Adam was apparently inspired by Philippe Leefsma's Inventor viewer for Android – something I'll also link to, once I see it's been published.
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Last week, I received confirmation that I'll be presenting a few different classes at AU 2012, which will be held at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas from November 27-28. My main sessions, this year, are in some way focused on cloud & mobile technologies. The subject matter of the first lecture is the recently completed cloud & mobile series, where we'll look at moving desktop functionality to the cloud and using it from a variety of mobile environments: CP1914 – Moving code to the cloud – it's easier than you think! It has a companion roundtable session –…
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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. …