It’s that time off year again: our internal Autodesk geekfest (called TechX) is being held this week in Las Vegas at the Resorts World Hotel. (It's held in a different city every year.)
I’ve come across to attend a Technical Leadership Forum on Monday, and then present a TechX session on using WebAssembly to create a Forma extension (in this case using VASA) on Tuesday. I’ll also be participating in a number of other activities before heading home on Friday.
As I wanted to be here in time for a reception on the Sunday night, I headed across on Saturday morning to fly from Zurich to San Francisco. (There are no direct flights from Switzerland to Las Vegas on Saturdays, it seems.) The flight wasn’t very busy, so I had the middle seat empty next to me. This meant I could catch a few hours of sleep, helped on my way by a formulaic Jason Stratham movie called The Beekeeper which seemed to be what might result if James Bond, John Wick and Hudson Hawk had a drunken…