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To complement the DevBlogs for AutoCAD, Infrastructure Modeling, AEC and Manufacturing (and in case you missed them, here are their respective announcements), the ADN team has now launched a DevBlog focused on Cloud & Mobile development. You might consider this another "horizontal" blog, in the sense that over time it will prove to be a valuable resource for people using our products (and, I suspect, many people who don't) in all the industries we serve. I'll drop a note to Gopi, to suggest he adds a link to my own cloud & mobile series, for future reference. It seems like…
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A long-time friend, colleague and worldwide M&E Manager for ADN, Cyrille Fauvel, has started Around the Corner, a blog focused on developing with Autodesk Maya, MotionBuilder, Mudbox and FBX. A member of Cyrille's team, Kristine Middlemiss, who co-authors the popular Maya Station blog, will also be co-authoring this new blog. For anyone interested in developing with Autodesk's Media and Entertainment products, this is going to be an extremely valuable resource: these two really know their stuff. Welcome to the blogosphere, Cyrille, and well done for contributing to a second blog, Kristine! ๐
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Some time ago I mentioned the launch of ADN's DevBlogs, and followed up, last week, with the announcement that the AEC version had launched. Now that we have DevBlogs covering AutoCAD, Infrastructure Modeling and our AEC products, it's only natural that we launch a Manufacturing DevBlog. Brian has mentioned it, over on his blog, too. Those of you working with Inventor, in particular, should be sure to bookmark Brian & Wayne's Mod the Machine blog as well as the Manufacturing DevBlog (after a period of relatively low activity, things have definitely picked up over at MtM). It's great to see…
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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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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 Infrastructure Modeling DevBlog (You'll find the ADN team has been generating material for some time, building up a decent head of steam before launching publicly.) To explain a bit of the background to these posts, check out Stephen Preston's welcome post. Expect more of these…
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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 to get this one going. I've worked with Jim pretty much since I started at Autodesk, and have reported directly to him for the last 6.5 years (although that will change in a few short weeks). I'm definitely going to miss being part of his…
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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 โ we've been collecting data with our current GA tracking since mid-2008). This only measures posts that have been found directly from an external link or a web search โ it doesn't track popularity of posts read via the main page, for instance. AutoCAD 2008 โ 64-bit application migration Getting started with AutoCAD and .NET…
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And yes, I do mean that literally. ๐ Since starting this blog, 5 years ago โ and even more in the last 2 years, since starting to develop and edit our Plugins of the Month for Autodesk Labs โ I've been checking every line of code I've written to make sure it doesn't exceed 70 characters in length (the magic number for fitting my blog's width). It's become close to automatic โ in the sense I rarely write lines that exceed this length and therefore need adjusting โ but the process I use is still quite manual: I check the…
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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 โ both on the individual posts and the index pages โ you'll find a set of thumbnails delivered by LinkWithin which link โ hopefully, at least โ to related posts on this blog. Going by the number of people using them to access additional content on the blog, it seems to be of benefit to some readers, at least. I've also just integrated a translation…
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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 welcome post, Isaac describes his motivations for creating the blog and sets expectations for his readers. In case you have suggestions of topics for Isaac to cover, you can post a comment on his blog, email him or contact him via Twitter. A very warm…