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  • [ Warning: this post is largely frivolous and non-technical, so please don't read on if that is likely to bother you. 🙂 ] Yesterday was August 1st, the Swiss National Day. During the afternoon, we (my wife, our 2 year-old son and I) visited my wife's parents at their place in the hills just outside Neuchâtel. My father-in-law gave me a fantastic present that I'm yet (but impatient) to play with: an Apple Newton in mint-condition. In the evening we went down to St Blaise, on the edge of Lake Neuchâtel, to watch the town's annual firework display. The last…

  • Welcome to "Through the Interface", a blog dedicated to programmers working with Autodesk technologies. My team, Autodesk's Developer Technical Services (DevTech), provides technical services to members of the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN), including programming support, consulting, training and evangelism. I'll be using this blog to share technical information about the use of our various Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and component technologies. Members of DevTech are experts on a wide range of Autodesk's products and APIs, so many of these posts will be contributed by members of my team. A little about myself… I have worked with a number of Autodesk's…