It’s Alive in the Lab is 11 years old today.
As a DWF Technical Evangelist, I started blogging by supplying Shaan Hurley with guest articles that he would post on his blog, Between The Lines. On February 14, 2006, I started my own blog, Beyond the Paper, using Shaan’s naming strategy where the emphasis was on DWF files and what you could do with them besides just printing.
When our team’s DWF work grew into a more formalized presence for technology previews, I defected from the DWF-related blog to It’s Alive in the Lab. I wrote my first article on April 10, 2007, entitled “It’s alive. It’s alive. It’s alive.” (an allusion to the original Frankenstein movie) which described our experiment-based, laboratory-oriented mission for previewing technology.
Last year, I shifted the focus of It’s Alive in the Lab to Autodesk Forge which is our platform that allows a community of Autodesk customers and software developers to develop their own customized workflow solutions using…