I had the pleasure of a visit from Peter Schlipf of the Forge Partner Development team, this week. Peter had come across for a number of reasons, but the first “task” was to catch up with Philippe Leefsma and wish him well for the next stage in his career. We met for an “apero” and then headed into Neuchatel for a lovely farewell dinner at the historic Cardinal brasserie.
It was a lovely evening, but bittersweet: I’m very happy to see Philippe moving into an interesting role at an Autodesk customer, but sad that we won’t be working together as closely. That said, we’ve already started chatting about AutoCAD development, so maybe I’m wrong about that. 😉
The following morning I picked Peter up from his hotel and we drove across to the canton of Fribourg. We took the back roads (some of them tiny, thanks Google!) to get to Villaz-Saint-Pierre, the home of regenHU. This is a company I visited for the first time back in May, and suggested to Peter that we arrange a…