Web/Tech
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Some time ago I looked into Project Draw, our first foray into diagramming on the web. Today we released – again on Autodesk Labs – our next-generation, web-based CAD tool… You may have heard of Dragonfly, and possibly even Firefly, well now it's time to meet Butterfly. [This makes me think of "When I see […]
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I'm this week's "expert" over on the AutoCAD Exchange: I don't know whether people visiting that site will be interested in asking programming-related questions, but as I'm routinely re-directing support questions I receive by email or as blog comments across to the ADN site or to our discussion groups, I thought I'd point this blog's […]
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As Jeremy Tammik reported a few weeks ago, Autodesk Search Beta is now available. Here are the results of my quick "vanity search" on this site… this isn't really egosurfing in its purist sense (although I admit I do Google my name pretty regularly – just to see who's quoting my blog :-), it's more […]
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This is a fascinating site that will no doubt be of interest to people reading this blog: Wolfram Research, the makers of Mathematica, have just released an online computational knowledge engine called Wolfram|Alpha. To get a feel for some of the capabilities of the engine I recommend spending some time looking through their gallery of […]
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Some of you might consider this to be slightly off topic (unless you make some bizarre connection with the fact that Carol Bartz is now CEO of Yahoo! :-). Actually there is a more direct connection, as the technology I'm introducing in this post - and have just had lots of fun playing around with […]
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A member of my team recently asked me to extend this blog's standard RSS feed to include more than 10 entries: he wanted a feed that contained all the entries ever posted to "Through the Interface". It turns out he uses Outlook 2007's RSS capability to download the full contents of items in an RSS […]
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Just a quick post... I've been (and am still) on vacation this week (not doing anything very exciting, mostly cutting hedges and other miscellaneous garden work), but I queued up a few posts in order to keep things moving along while I was offline. One of the posts I put together was regarding the API […]
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Last week David Falck, over at the Autodesk Labs team, provided me with an API key to have a play with the API to Project Draw. This post documents what I did, and how it all worked. Note: I'm not actually doing any coding whatsoever in this post: I used the handy API test page […]
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Over on It's Alive in the Lab, Scott Sheppard is looking for developers interested in working with the API to Project Draw. If you're interested, send an email.