Weblogs
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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 with Autodesk Revit and is written by Jeremy Tammik from our European DevTech team. For those of you working with one of these products, I strongly recommend subscribing to their respective RSS feeds (here for Mod the Machine, and here for The Building Coder). I'm…
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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 a link to it from one or other of the navigation sidebars. I can also apply the type of view used on the page to the various category-/date-based archive pages, if people generally consider it to be more helpful than the current approach (which is…
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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). There may be a few differences - such as the display of one month's post history in calendar view, rather than three - but I expect to readjust these items over the coming weeks. I'm also hoping to find a way to provide a master…
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In the last post we saw some code that downloaded data - serially - from a number of websites via RSS and created AutoCAD entities linking to the various posts. As promised, in today's post we take that code and enable it to query the same data in parallel by using Asynchronous Workflows in F#. Asynchronous Workflows are an easy-to-use yet powerful mechanism for enabling concurrent programming in F#. Firstly, a little background as to why this type of technique is important. As many - if not all - of you are aware, the days of raw processor speed doubling…
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OK, OK, you are probably thinking "why would anyone ever want to use AutoCAD as an RSS reader?". The answer is, of course, "they wouldn't". The point of the next few posts is not actually to enable AutoCAD to be used to read RSS, but to show how it is possible to use F# and .NET to extract information from RSS feeds and create corresponding AutoCAD entities. The reason I came onto this subject will also become more clear when you see my next post: I have been researching Asynchronous Workflows in F# - an uber-cool mechanism for managing concurrent,…
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Scott Sheppard - the original author of the very informative DWF blog, Beyond the Paper - has launched a new blog talking about Autodesk Labs, called It's Alive in the Lab. I'm looking forward to seeing lots of cool information on Labs technology coming through this blog.