Showing posts with label AU2012. Show all posts
Showing posts with label AU2012. Show all posts

Thursday, December 06, 2012

AU 2012 - Is it a cloudy future?

So, after almost a week I've mostly dug myself out from the post AU work hangover. For the first time in several years I was quite pleased with the majority of the course I attended, though most of them were dealing with Data and Information, and not specific Revit techniques.

I was however a bit dissapointed with this year's Keynote. I thought last year's was better overall (though the  kid was great), however I'm getting tired of hearing Carl Bass tell me the same thing for the last three year running, ie Autodesk is investing in cloud software solutions. Ok, we get it, what else? Oh yeah, you're software is going to share seamless with all products, and they don't want to "restrict our data". Enough, tell me what else is coming! I get the cloud thing we all do, but its also going take you another three to five years to get to full enterprise level support.

So with that thought in mind the folks at Imaginit were kind enough to line up Beau Turner and Matt Mason (two of my favorite guys to chat with) to talk a little bit about where they see things going and why they're leading the software developer they are (which by the way does not have cloud, social or mobile in any product name) and where they seem some intruging possibilities in the not too distant future.

Consider it DoRevit's AU Keynote rebuttal/follow-up.


Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving & See You @ AU

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the United States!

I will be headed out to Autodesk University on Sunday and look forward to seeing many of you out there. I'll be kicking around so don't hesitate to look me up either through e-mail, blog comments, or whatever.
Kitchen Island, glass tile backsplash

Kitchen on left, tiled chimney and wood storage on right.
Wood Stove Hearth
Second Floor Foyer
Master Bath Shower (sans glass) and Make-up vanity beyond.

 The house is coming along quite nicely, painters are finishing up this week and next, we just need to get our guard rails installed and a few other minor finishing touches, here and there.