Manufacturing DevBlog: Stephen Preston

By Stephen Preston

• Have a great idea for a new product that leverages an Autodesk web service?
  
  
• Want up close and personal help from Autodesk to turn your idea into a working prototype?  
  
  
• Interested in getting face to face with Autodesk Cloud Engineers to both learn and make sure they know what you want?

 

If yes, the 2015 Autodesk Cloud Accelerator may be for you.

Autodesk will be hosting a Cloud Accelerator in our San Francisco office for up to 14 creative software developers for two weeks – March 9 to March 20, 2015. During the Accelerator, participants will work intensively on their chosen project  with the help, support, and training of the Autodesk Cloud engineering teams.  This includes daily classes by industry experts on important aspects of Cloud development – and 1 on 1 help from these experts in real time. At the end of the Accelerator, you will also have the opportunity to present your prototype to senior Autodesk Executives.

To pursue a place in the Accelerator, send us a proposal (in English) of not more than 1000 words explaining why you should be one of participants and graduates in the “first class”. Proposals should be emailed to [email protected] no later than January 10, 2015. Successful candidates will be notified on or around January 17, 2015.

How will Autodesk choose who participates in this first Cloud Accelerator class?

To get a position in the Accelerator, Autodesk will be looking for the following in your proposal:

• Use of an Autodesk Web Service API to fill a compelling customer need. (View & Data, AutoCAD® I/O, Autodesk® Fusion 360™, Autodesk® BIM 360™ or Autodesk® ReCap 360™)
• Likelihood of having a demonstrable prototype by the end of the Accelerator.
• Strong development skills.
• High motivation.
  
  

Too costly for you?  

Autodesk recognizes two weeks of time out of the office, as well as travel and living costs, is a large investment.  To partially offset these costs, Autodesk will pay lodging costs for all the developers in this first class (14 nights in a hotel).  Up to 2 people from a single company will be accepted so be clear in your proposal if this is for 1 or 2 people (maybe you want both a product designer and developer to participate?). All other expenses are the responsibility of the participants including airfare and food (though you can be confident Autodesk will be buying a number of lunches and dinners for the class).

Questions?

Don’t be shy to ask us if you need more information to decide whether to apply.  We are happy to talk with you about what you are considering developing as part of the Accelerator – or about details you may want to know on Accelerator logistics.

We want to help you make progress developing your own products that use Cloud technologies – whether or not you end up participating in the 2015 Accelerator.  So we strongly encourage you to be quick to ask us any questions you may have on the Accelerator.  Send your questions to
[email protected].

By Stephen Preston

The ADN blog posts yesterday were the result of the second year of our team's internal April Fools' Challenge, where we have a little friendly competition to see who can post the 'best' April Fools' article. Of course, different people like different kinds of humor, so there's never really just one 'best'. (We try to avoid posting serious articles on April 1st in case someone thinks we're joking when we're not, but one sometimes slips through due to timezone miscalculations).

In no particular order, here is a full list of our Foolish posts (along with the name and location of the perpetrator):

• Xiaodong Liang (China) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2014/04/avr-glass-autodesk-virtual-reality-glass-in-the-age-of-cloud.html
• Adam Nagy (UK) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2014/04/william-as-honorary-autodesk-spokesperson.html
• Kevin Vandecar (US) - http://getcoreinterface.typepad.com/blog/2014/04/preparation-for-your-3ds-max-customers-cloud-storage.html
• Augusto Goncalves (Brazil) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/infrastructure/2014/04/infraworks-360-public-pilot.html
• Daniel Du (China) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/cloud_and_mobile/2014/04/autodesk-exchange-is-making-it-a-real-one.html
• Jeremy Tammik (Switzerland) - http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/04/automating-large-scale-waste-recycling-and-sustainability.html
• Cyrille Fauvel (France) - http://around-the-corner.typepad.com/adn/2014/04/3d-printing-second-industrial-revolution-is-under-way.html
• Partha Sarkar (India) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2014/04/1-2-3-d-import-a-revit-family.html
• Brian Ekins (US) - http://modthemachine.typepad.com/my_weblog/2014/04/new-age-of-cad-interaction.html
• Stephen Preston (US) - http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2014/03/autodesk-announces-microsuites-1.html

And of course, I have to mention the post by Kean Walmsley - our longstanding Master of Fools.

Although, the Autodesk-related post yesterday that made me laugh the most was this one - http://designandmotion.net/autodesk/its-autodesks-turn-to-get-acquired-by-facebook/.

By Stephen Preston

Register and mark your calendars now for this upcoming webcast on making the most of the Autodesk Exchange Apps store ...

"How developers can ride and profit from the adoption wave of Autodesk Exchange Apps"

The Autodesk Exchange Apps stores (currently there are 15 stores) are a huge opportunity for developers to gain direct access to the growing number of Autodesk customers using Exchange Apps.  In just one year there’s been over one million visits and over 250,000 downloads. With comments like “one of my most useful tools”, “love this app, saved me hours of work” there’s no doubt that Exchange Apps has become a resource that Autodesk customers rely on to find useful apps of all types.    

If you develop apps and want to reach more customers quickly, easily and inexpensively but haven’t yet put your toe in the water with Exchange Apps, the Autodesk Developer Network (ADN) team is ready to help you.  You’re invited to attend a webinar on June 13^th hosted by Jim Quanci and Stephen Preston to learn how you can catch the wave and accelerating growth of Exchange Apps.

You’ll learn the tricks of the trade when publishing on Exchange Apps, get ideas on how to be successful and learn about the ability to publish localized apps. Here’s what you need to know:

Webinar details:

Date: Thursday, June 13^th, 2013
Time: 8 a.m. PDT (4 p.m. BST; 5 p.m. CET; 11 a.m. EDT)
Duration: Approximately one hour

Open to anyone interested in publishing apps on Autodesk Exchange Apps (i.e. ADN membership is not required :-).

Registration: Reserve your place by June 11 by sending an email to [email protected] with Exchange Apps webinar as the subject. Please make sure you include your full name, company name and email address.

And visit www.autodesk.com/developapps now if you want a head start in learning how to publish apps.

 

Update June 24th 2013:

Here is the download link for the webinar recording. Its a WMV format - fast forward to 1 min 44 seconds for the start. 

By Stephen Preston

As part of our ADN Open work to move our API content to more accessible (search-engine-findable) locations, I'm posting our webcast archive to DevBlog. Some of these recordings are old now, but still contain useful information. And, being recordings of live webcasts, they are not as polished as our DevTV recordings.

Note that some recordings are in Chinese and some in English.