Weblogs

  • 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 […]

  • I'm very happy to announce the creation of a series of new blogs by the Autodesk Developer Network team, marking a significant shift from the team creating material that's only available to ADN members (i.e. DevNotes behind the ADN extranet) to creating material that's available to everyone. The first two are available now: AutoCAD DevBlog […]

  • I'm delighted to be announcing that Jim Quanci, Director of the Autodesk Developer Network, has started a blog on partnering with large companies such as Autodesk: Dances with Elephants. I know Jim has been considering writing a blog for some time, and I'm really happy he's managed to find the time in his busy schedule […]

  • Through the Interface turned 5 yesterday (I only realised late last night, as it was a Sunday). To celebrate this milestone, I've had a look in Google Analytics to determine the 20 most-visited posts over the last five years (or at least since records began – we've been collecting data with our current GA tracking […]

  • And yes, I do mean that literally. πŸ™‚ Since starting this blog, 5 years ago – and even more in the last 2 years, since starting to develop and edit our Plugins of the Month for Autodesk Labs – I've been checking every line of code I've written to make sure it doesn't exceed 70 […]

  • I've made added a few new features to this blog over the last few weeks, to help people find related content and to get content in their preferred language. At the bottom of each post – both on the individual posts and the index pages – you'll find a set of thumbnails delivered by LinkWithin […]

  • Many readers of this blog are developing code to work with AutoCAD Civil 3D, so I have no doubt that the information in today's post will be welcomed. Isaac Rodriguez, the Software Engineering Lead for the AutoCAD Civil 3D API, has started Civilized Development, a new blog about developing for AutoCAD Civil 3D. In his […]

  • This is both my 500th post on Through the Interface and my 500th tweet as @keanw. All my blog posts now go out via Twitter, but this hasn't always been the case, so this is partly coincidence and partly planned (since I noticed a few weeks ago that I was getting close to this number […]

  • I'd like to extend a warm welcome to the Autodesk developer blogosphere to Doug Redmond, who has recently started a blog focused on programming and administering Autodesk Vault, It's All Just Ones and Zeros. Doug is a long-time contributor to Autodesk's development community, whether helping my team deal with complex API issues or presenting the […]

  • 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 […]