Yesterday was our first April Fool's Day since we started our DevBlogs, so we had some fun picking up the gauntlet laid down over the years by Kean Walmsley by writing a few of our own April Fool's blog posts. In case you missed some, here is the full list:
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/infrastructure/2013/04/how-green-and-sustainable-is-my-civil-3d-infrastructure-project.html
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2013/04/autodesk-orbital-movement-epoch-notification-system.html
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2013/04/d-for-developers-.html
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/manufacturing/2013/04/inventor-for-ipad-is-now-available.html
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2013/04/autocad-2014s-incredible-easter-egg-surprise.html
- http://adndevblog.typepad.com/autocad/2013/04/introducing-the-autodesk-layout.html
- http://around-the-corner.typepad.com/adn/2013/03/kinect-leapmotion-mocap-all-legacy-tools-.html
- http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/04/cloud-based-restaurant-seating-arrangement-and-cleaning.html
And, of course, there was also Kean's own post - http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2013/04/taking-reality-capture-to-the-next-level-3d-scentsing.html.
For completeness here are links to Kean's April Fool's posts from previous years:
- http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2008/04/unpublished-aut.html
- http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2009/04/through-the-interface-moving-from-typepad-to-twitter.html
- http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2010/04/childs-play-a-new-tool-for-generating-3d-models-from-childrens-drawings.html
- http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2011/03/autocad-for-dos-2012.html
- http://through-the-interface.typepad.com/through_the_interface/2012/03/360-convergence.html
We hope you enjoyed the articles, and that those of you from countries that don't have an April Fool's tradition didn't think we'd gone completely mad.
If you didn't like them, then I'll leave you with this advice from an old friend of mine:
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
(Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream, closing speech - William Shakespeare).