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Spreadsheets
Cloud Architecture
AWS
Data Structures for Spreadsheet Snapshots
I have a plan. After a round of brainstorming and benchmarking, I’ve decided to use Event Sourcing to store the sequence of operations applied to a spreadsheet. Every so often I’ll create snapshots of the current spreadsheet state. I can then load the spreadsheet at any point in time by loading a snapshot and applying changes from that point on in the event log.
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Organizational Anti-Patterns
Organizational Anti-Patterns #7: Product Managers
Obviously, I’m not suggesting that the entire role of Product Manager is an anti-pattern. Somebody has to identify customer needs, understand business objectives and articulate what success looks like. The Harvard Business Review says that great product managers need highly developed emotional intelligence to forge connections with internal and external stakeholders, and to sway them to their point of view. Not usually a core competency for more engineering focused roles.
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Cloud Architecture
AWS
Amortized Cost and the Cloud
I first came across the concept of amortized cost when I learnt about the vector class in C++. At that point I was largely a self-taught programmer without much in the way of theoretical foundation. I was used to using linked lists and understood that the cost of adding a new element was constant, regardless of the size of the list. Vectors seemed like witchcraft to me.
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Gear
Vodafone Openreach Full Fibre Broadband Install
There comes a time in everyone’s life when they start to wonder whether they should change their Internet Service Provider. I was with my previous provider for four years. The monthly price steadily rose, the supplied router was lagging behind in terms of features and the speeds from my ADSL line were adequate at best. On a good day I was getting 10 Mbps down, 0.5 Mps up and 33 ms latency.
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Computer Graphics
Navisworks
From Navisworks to Nanite
The Navisworks Graphics Pipeline last got a serious overhaul more then ten years ago. I want to find out how you could implement something like Navisworks with a modern pipeline. As a starting point, I’ve decided to have a look at the Nanite pipeline introduced with Unreal Engine 5.
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Navisworks
Computer Graphics
Autodesk
The Navisworks Graphics Pipeline
Last time we looked at the evolution of the graphics pipeline over the last 30 years or so. Given that framework, what does the Navisworks graphics pipeline look like?
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Blog
Six Months In
It’s been six months since I started the blog. High time to have another look at the analytics. You might want to keep the previous analytics review handy so you can compare and contrast.
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Computer Graphics
A Trip Down The Graphics Pipeline
It seems like a long time since I described the general areas for my initial projects. I’ve talked a lot about my cloud based, open source, serverless, customer deployed, scalable spreadsheet project. Today I’m going to switch gears and make a start on Interactive Viewing for Large Geometric Models.
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Organizational Anti-Patterns
Autodesk
Navisworks
Organizational Anti-Patterns #6: The 800lb Gorilla
What do you give an 800-pound gorilla? Whatever it wants.
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Spreadsheets
Cloud Architecture
AWS
Brainstorming and Benchmarking
Last time I took you on a tour of the world’s most boring spreadsheet. I used a basic, if large, spreadsheet to identify some benchmarks that I can use to assess the viability of the crazy implementation ideas we’re going to brainstorm. The benchmarks are by no means exhaustive - think of them as the very low bar that any idea needs to get over to be worth considering further.