The Alias Sketch for AutoCAD Technology Preview integrates Alias Sketchbook Pro functionality into AutoCAD and allows you to integrate painting, illustration and image manipulation into AutoCAD design. It supports Freehand drawing techniques Create blank screen […]
Governor Schwarzenegger has announced that the California Building Standards Commission has approved the first-in-the-nation statewide mandatory Green Building Standards Code (CALGREEN) requiring all new buildings in the state to be more energy efficient and environmentally […]
The first major release of GeoREST has been announced by Jason Birch and Haris Kurtagic. GeoREST is a new open source RESTful framework that works with existing open source libraries such as MapGuide and FDO […]
In response to a reader of my blog post about Project Butterfly, I checked with Scott Sheppard of Autodesk Labs to get a better idea of the underlying platform for Project Butterfly. Project Butterfly Technology […]
After a three-month investigation by the European Commission, the EU has decided that the acquisition has the “potential to revitalize important assets and create new and innovative products.” Of particular concern was Oracle’s acquisition of […]
In the UK the public is now beginning to be able to access detailed government information at data.gov.uk, which was just launched today by Tim Berners-Lee. Apparently data.gov.uk already contains more than 2,500 sets of […]
I blogged previously about Vancouver’s ground breaking decision to open the city’s data to public access. Vancouver has just launched a new version of the City’s Open Data web site. Compared with the initial launch […]
There are 19 nuclear reactors in the UK totaling 11 GWe capacity and about 3% of UK electricity demand is met by imports of nuclear power from France, so total nuclear consumption is normally about […]