WWDC 2007 Report

WWDC Report
Day 7: Saturday

I woke up today and got out of the hotel by 6am, heading for a flight at SFO trying to get back to Seattle as fast as I could. Unfortunately, the whole WWDC trip seemed to be a bit of a waste considering that we had health issues for part of it.

When I arrived back in Seattle, I was tired and didnt want to think any more. The trip from Seatac back to downtown was a nice time for reflection and for me to gather my wits. What did we accomplish this week? Not much other than meeting and greeting people in the industry.

But if that is the best we can say about the conference, than that does not bode well for attendance of any future conferences. We certainly would not go back if it was the same as this years. And if Apple, Inc is reading this, more meat please!

WWDC 2007 Report

Day 6: Friday

Woke up this morning and made the decision to focus on code today. now that the conference is just about over, I am looking forward to heading to Seattle again and getting back to the real world.

One interesting item of note today is the fact that Leopard is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon.com.

I worked on changing my flight today and found out that Travelocity will charge more than the airlines to change the flight. Apparently they are trying to profit even on peoples changes and misfortunes. But that is the way of business today. (And all of their agents are off shore in India)

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Day 5: Thursday

Another day and more presentations. Not much interesting to report today as I have figured out the the presentations are more attuned to those just starting out and not to the hard core coders. Next year we will just bring our code and hang out in the labs as that seems to be the most productive way of doing things here at WWDC.

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Day 4: Wednesday

605 and 607, 608

yesterday being a complete waste of time other than a bit from 614, I had little hope for today. But with the fact that we were talking about things near and dear to my heart, the accesibility items, I found that the 605 course was at least a step in the right direction.

But then I guess that is the way the WWDC experience is going for the media folks. Spoon fed baby food and not a lot of really meaty solutions. Hopefully that is going to change here tomorrow.

But for now I go on, sitting through duh presentations from people who "DID iT" but dont give any fundamentals of How or Why.

WWDC 2007 Report

For those of you who are interested in seeing photos of WWDC and the process that we have gone through to get here, you can check out the Douglas McLaughlin photo blog at:
http://web.mac.com/douglasm/iWeb/WWDC07/WWDC.html

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Day 3: Tuesday
614 - the iPhone

This was suddenly thrust on us as a last minute change to Tuesday instead of its original Thursday time slot. It meant that 601-Digital Media went out the window as far as I was concerned.

I sat there in the presentation and the only thing that seemed to come out of the presentation was that everything was already there for controlling websites on the iPhone. It was not only a no meat type presentation but it really gave me a serious thought of the poor idea Apple has of the future of third party vendors programming on their platforms.

But all in all, the iPhone is not bad except, it is not WI-FI, and it doesnt run Java and the limitations mean that any programs one would write for the standard Internet browsers would be useless. So what to do? Well, it will support HTML 4.01.

Not a good start but hopefully more will come as the days go on.

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Day 2 : Part 2

What a day. After the disappointment that followed the keynote speech, I went back to the hotel to work. It was probably the best move I made all day due to the fact that i was absolutely wacked by the tiume it came to go back over to Muscone Center. I did not make it back over and instead chose to work until midnight plus.

I guess tomorrow is another day. Hopefully it will be much more fruitful than today.

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Day 2: Keynote

For those who looking for the whiz bang of the usual Apple keynote, you will likely be disappointed. The lack of real meat to the keynote was apparent from the start. The only thing Steve introduced were features that they were hiding from the guys up in Redmond.

And many of the things were items that already were implemented in most of the Apple programs we already use. Now off to the afternoon sessions to see what kind of tidbits I can pick up.

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Day 1: Sunday

I arrived in San Francisco for WWDC 2007 just absolutely exhausted. Too many late nights of working on our new software sort of burned me out for the trip but all the same, it was well worth the trip.

After a 30 minute, 80 mile an hour ride from the airport to downtown, I found myself facing another 10 minute walk to Muscone Center. One there and registered, it was just a matter of going through what apple considers to be the annual goodies. One computer bag and one batch of maps and schedule for the conference.

Supposedly this year’s event has more than 1000 more attendees than the 2006 edition of WWDC. But that could just be fluff even though they have set up overflow rooms once again for the attendees.

But now we once again look forward to the new day and more goodies from "The Steve". But while there is much speculation on the things that he will introduce, there is little evidence of anything really big other than the little bits that are rumored such as the iPhone Developers Kit or some enhancements to the top of the line machines.

But since this is a developers conference, anything Steve Jobs puts forth will be like gold as it is preaching to the choir in this case.