Autodesk’s Project Butterfly is its latest offering in the Cloud (Software as a Service, SaaS, web-based software, whatever) area. This is a Labs technology preview (i.e. it ain’t cooked yet) of browser-based drawing system based on Autodesk’s purchase of Visual Tao. The idea is that no software other than a browser is required to [...]
 21 January 2010, 10:52 am |  6 comments | Tags: Autodesk, Cloud, Labs, Project Butterfly, SaaS, Scott Sheppard, Video, Web Stuff | Category: Autodesk, Cloud, Other Autodesk Products, Other Blogs, Review, Video, Web Stuff I was amused to see Shaan Hurley losing his locks at AU. Some of you may recall me suggesting this course of action a couple of years ago. How close do you think I got with my artist’s impression? Original images © 2008 and 2009 Shaan [...] 17 January 2010, 1:03 pm |  One comment | Tags: Fun, Image manipulation, Pictures, Psychic Prediction, Shaan Hurley | Category: AU2009, Fun, Image manipulation, Navel Gazing, Other Blogs, Photography, Pictures For those of us who have been following Autodesk for decades, it’s a familiar story. Autodesk buys a company or its technology, makes an Autodesk product out of it, and initially promotes it as the best thing since sliced bread. Autodesk subsequently ignores it to death, before finally killing it off and leaving customers [...] 16 January 2010, 1:54 pm | One comment | Tags: Autodesk, Customer Service, FM Desktop, Orphans | Category: Autodesk, Customer Service, Other Autodesk Products, Other Products LT Toolkit from the now-defunct drcauto was an add-on for AutoCAD LT that provided LISP and other capabilities that Autodesk disabled. Autodesk hated this, of course, but the late Gary D’Arcy made sure everything was done legally so it couldn’t be stopped even by Autodesk’s hyperactive legal team. If you are a user of [...] 15 January 2010, 12:20 pm | 2 comments | Tags: AutoCAD LT, drcauto, Evan Yares, LISP, LT Toolkit, Other Blogs | Category: AutoCAD, Customer Service, Development, LISP, Other Blogs, Tip It’s an understatement to say that things have been a little quiet around here lately. I have just returned from some international travels and expect to start ramping thing up again soon. Thanks to the person who enquired about my wellbeing; I value your concern. I replied, but it bounced. |
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