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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, […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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To celebrate my second son's 5th birthday (how time flies!), we visited Disneyland Paris for the long weekend here in Switzerland (it was the Jeûne Fédéral, or Federal Fasting Holiday, which apparently has its roots back in the 15th century). We arrived back, late last night, by the TGV from Paris to Neuchâtel. Aside from […]
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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 […]
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I'm currently in Shanghai for an internal technical conference, which I'm really looking forward to. There are loads of very interesting, deeply technical sessions on the 2-day agenda. I travelled via Beijing, to spend some time with the DevTech China team, yesterday, and will fly back there on Thursday evening to spend time with them […]