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Revit Technology Conference 2008 - Revit User Group Sydney

The Revit Technology Conference is happening in Sydney, late June. I attended the NZ event last year it was a great Revit focused “Mini Autodesk University”. It’s a chance to hear about the latest in... Read more →

Cosmic connections

Today’s space news and too long spent playing with blog design* this weekend made this cosmic blog‘toon seem rather relevant. From the excellent xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and... Read more →

Technical illustration, demonstration and art with Silverlight

Michael Scherotter created the impressive illustration, and functional demo, below with Microsoft’s Silverlight Epression tools. His post details the creation process, how it’s hosted and shared. It’s... Read more →

Weblog design changes - Work in progress

If you’re reading the feed you won’t have noticed but visitors to the weblog page will see some layout changes. I’ve changed the side-bars to a right hand layout and “de-cluttered” them: The med... Read more →

Rod Drury has a plan to fix Microsoft

Rod, Xero , Drury has laid out an 18 point plan to “fix” Microsoft. It’s big (theres a few points below) and it’s radical but I suspect, with the $50 billion not spent on Yahoo!, they could do it.... Read more →

Global "BIMStorm" Forecast to hit London

A reader emailed me about BIMStorm London which is happening in June (details in the extended post). BIMStorm aims to raise the awareness of BIM and how the AEC industry is, or should be, using collab... Read more →

An Aussie Tablet PC Blog!

It’s good to see some, reasonably, local Tablet PC resources. Tablet PC Blog - blog.tabletpc.com.au Australian Tablet PC information resource via www.gottabemobile.com/ Read more →

Mindjet acquire JCVGantt - Syncronised Mindmaps and Gantt Charts

I depend on MindManager to aggregate and manage project information from many sources into a “dashboard”. It’s also a great planning tool providing rich, but simple to edit, task, process and resource... Read more →

Microsoft is cloud building, with lots of servers...

There seems to be plenty of news about clouds, even when the weather is fine! It’s not about stormy weather, but rather “Cloud Computing”. It featured in Microsoft’s presentation at Autodesk Uni... Read more →

David's Design ReForm

David Fano’s Design ReForm is a blog with tutorials and explorations in parametric modeling using applications like 3ds Max, Revit, Maya, and Rhino. I hadn’t found it, until he emailed me, so I’m real... Read more →