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  • By popular request (well, in honesty I received one request via Twitter from @MattAnderson, but it seemed like such a good idea ๐Ÿ™‚ I have added a ShareThis button to this blog's right-sash navigation.   Clicking this should now allow you to share the current page (whether the site itself or an individual post โ€“ […]

  • Well, happy birthday to "Through the Interface", anyway. ๐Ÿ™‚ 3 years, 394 posts and 2,559 comments later, TTIF is still going strong. In fact, it's now the 2nd most visited Autodesk blog, after Shaan's (some of our blogs with shorter posts publish their full content via RSS, so this doesn't necessarily completely reflect the relative […]

  • This post is a miscellaneous update on things I've put off announcing because of all the fun I've been having with AutoCAD 2010's Overrule API. First up is the AutoCAD Exchange, a new site devoted to people working with, you guessed it, AutoCAD. It's stocked with lots of useful and fun content, as well as […]

  • As of tomorrow, I will be transitioning away from posting to this site via TypePad in favour of micro-blogging via the increasingly-popular Twitter service. If you would like to follow me on Twitter, you can do so via http://twitter.com/keanw. Any lengthy monologues (and yes, I know I'm prone to these, from time to time ๐Ÿ™‚ […]

  • 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 […]

  • I need to vent. I've had an open ticket with Six Apart (the people providing TypePad, the service on which this blog is hosted) since January 2nd of this year. Kerry Brown had kindly pointed out a problem with Through the Interface's calendar navigation on December 26th, but as I was on vacation it took […]

  • 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 […]

  • Now for something I hinted at in this previous post... I'm very happy to announce that Through the Interface has two new siblings: Mod the Machine is a blog devoted to developers working with Autodesk Inventor and is written by Brian Ekins, Inventor API designer. The Building Coder is a blog devoted to developers working […]

  • As mentioned in this recent post, I've been meaning to create a master page of all the posts I've made since the blog was born in mid-2006. Well, here is that page. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Once I get feedback on the page, I'll go ahead and add […]

  • Many of you will have noticed the blog's new design. Hopefully you will find the new look both pleasing to the eye and easier to read/navigate (I personally like the new design very much - even down to the way the comments are now listed and something as fundamental as the font's typeface and colour). […]