BE Conference Europe

I was fortunate enough to be able to attend this year's BE (Bentley Empowered) Conference Europe which was held last month in Prague, Czech Republic.

The conference was well organised and very informative, and I met some wonderful (and very knowledgeable) people from the UK, Europe, the US, and of course Australia. For me, the most impressive thing at the conference was GenerativeComponents (GC), a computational and parametric design tool that sits on top of MicroStation. GC is very powerful, and very, very complicated. The key developer, Dr Robert Aish, is organising for a GC workshop to happen somewhere in Oceania (but likely in Melbourne) later this year.

Welcome to our new website

Well, after perhaps the shortest development period in history, our website is now live and ready for business. On this site you'll hear our latest news, see examples of our work, be able to get in contact with us, and, well, a lot more stuff as we go.

It is hoped that this site demonstrates that standards-compliant websites don't need to look dull (he says, as he types dark grey text on a variety of lighter grey backgrounds).

Technically speaking, this site is written in XHTML 1.0 Strict, and relies an awful lot on CSS. Which happens to be what we use for our clients.

Two sites nearing completion

A couple of the most recent underscore projects are nearing completion. "A Coffee with Jimmy T" is the personal website of Jimmy Thomson, a Sydney based author, scriptwriter and journalist. The site is presently undergoing a final content review and should be live by mid-June. You can read more about Jimmy's website here.

The other site nearing completion is for Galileo Whole Body Vibration, the Australian distributers of a new hi-tech health and fitness machine. The site was a collaboration between underscore and Architect and graphic designer Matthew Blair. More details about this site are here.