Training
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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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As announced previously on this blog, the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team is in the process of launching a series of DevBlogs, publishing material publicly that would previously only have been made available to ADN members. I see some fantastic material being posted there: more than I can keep up with, personally, but I expect that will settle down once the team has created posts from the bulk of the DevNotes published on the ADN web-site. Following the availability of those for AutoCAD and Infrastructure Modeling, I'm pleased to announce the AEC DevBlog is now live. If you're [considering] developing…
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As mentioned in this previous post, this year's DevCamps are now looming. In particular, there are just a few more weeks left before the early bird discount expires – be sure to sign up soon (if you're planning on attending, that is :-). Here's some more information on these events from the ADN team: Join us at Camp this Summer! Announcing Autodesk AEC DevCamp (June 6-7) and Manufacturing DevCamp (June 13-14)! Register by April 30th to get the $100 early bird discount! DevCamps are held every other year where software developers like you can learn to get the most from…
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I've just arrived home from a long day (mainly because of the 4-hour round-trip rail travel) at the Windows TechConference in Baden, Switzerland, focused on Windows 8. It was a pretty interesting day – thankfully, as I'm still a bit jetlagged from my trip to California, and I didn't want to doze off in the lecture theatre. And yes, I've certainly dozed during a few lectures in my time, but not since leaving University. The main developer-oriented session I attended – which covered writing a WinRT application to pull down Teletext into a XAML + C# application, which was just…
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After initially holding DevCamps annually in 2007 and 2008, we've now settled down to the more regular rhythm of every other year (the last set was in 2010). Which means, of course, it's time to do them again. 🙂 As already reported by Geoff, Heidi, Jeremy and Shaan, here is some information regarding this year's DevCamps: AEC When: June 6-7, with a DevLab on June 8 Where: Boston, Massachusetts – near Autodesk's AEC Division headquarters Cost: early bird discount fee of US $500 valid to April 30, 2012, thereafter US $600 Manufacturing When: June 13-14, with a DevLab on June…
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Hot on the heels of the Revit and Inventor installments in this series of guides (OK, OK – perhaps not exactly hot, but then "warm on the heels" doesn't have quite the same ring to it ;-), I'm happy to announce that the previously mentioned "My First AutoCAD Plug-in" guide is now available. Stephen Preston, the author of this excellent guide, has done a great job of creating a compelling sample – which keeps your block attributes horizontal, irrespective of the block rotation – and a series of straightforward explanations to help power-users and programming "newbies" take the plunge into…
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Over the last couple of months, Wayne Brill has been delivering online AutoCAD .NET training. The training has received very positive feedback from attendees. Recordings of most of the sessions are now (or will soon be) available from our online API webcast archive (which is also accessible via http://autodesk.com/apitraining –> Webcast Archive). You'll notice that the recordings start with session 2: we had some technical issues with the first week's recording, but as the material for these classes is essentially the same material as that used for Wayne's DevTV sessions (which are all linked to from this post, including the…
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Starting next week – and for 8 weeks – Wayne Brill, from DevTech Americas, will be delivering free online AutoCAD .NET training. To register – yes, for free – go to our API Training page and select "Schedule", then scroll down to "AutoCAD .NET", "English", "Webcast", "Sep 08 2011" and click "Register" at the far right of the item. This training is a live-delivered version of Wayne's excellent series of DevTV sessions posted previously (with transcripts). This is likely to appeal to those of you who like knowing there's a warm body at the other end of their webcast link…
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The class catalog for Autodesk University 2011 is now available to preview in advance of the conference registration opening up on August 30th. Here are the sessions I'm either presenting or hosting: CP3840 Integrating Microsoft® Kinect™ with AutoCAD® Lecture Nov 30, 3:15pm CP4459-U AutoCAD® .NET Development: Tools and Best Practices Unconf-erence Dec 1, 1:15pm I'm also honoured to be co-presenting the following session with the famous (and famously lowercase) dave espinosa-aguilar: CP4717 Unlimited AutoCAD® Scripting for Everyone Lecture Nov 29, 5:00pm And I'm part of the panel for the following sessions: CP2149 AutoCAD® APIs: Meet the Experts Stephen Preston Panel…
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A few years ago I mentioned that my team was looking into learning paths for novice programmers. This effort has led to the "My First Plug-In" series, of which we now have two guides ready: My First Revit Plug-In My First Inventor Plug-In This series is really intended for power-users of Autodesk software who want to take their use of our products to the next level, but need some targeted help on the programming side of things. We currently have guides for Maya and AutoCAD in the works. While many of this blog's readership won't need this kind of assistance,…