Day 2...Well we found out by email there was a competition for the best Dashboard component at the end of the conference. So naturally we wanted to go to the session "Dashboard Widget Development" only to find it really packed...Of course there were 3500 people wanting to win a free PowerBook. The next session was called "Developing for Automator" which is a new product for Tiger which allows users to have a "Visual" scripting for workflow environment. This means that users can drag and drop tasks from various applications to form a workflow of actions. A very easy way to...
Yey well we its finally starting! The first session of the conference is from Steve Jobs CEO of Apple Computers. During his session entitled "Steve Jobs and Mac OSX 'Tiger'". Jobs announced the new 30" lcd display as well as an insight into Apples success into the music world. These included the release of the Apple iPod and iPod mini, as well as iTunes and Airport express with Airtunes. The next step to this was the partnership with BMW who have included a cable to connect the iPod straight into the audio system in some of there cars, included the...
Student day was about introducing students to WWDC and helping us make the most of our experience. The speakers were pretty interesting, there was also some advice from some past students who were now employed by Apple. There was then a brief introduction to some of the recent technologies such was Motion, which is really cool for video editing as well as some insight into the process apple goes through to get a 1.0 product off the ground. After this there was a lab session in which we were split into random groups and assigned to take on a Cocoa...
Yep, today we took a tour of the city and alcatraz for a lean $60us. We cruized around san fran in a double decker bus, getting out at some of the attractions such as, Piere 39, the Gateway bridge, and the Japenese Gardens. Then went over to the old alcatraz prison for a while which was cool, went on the self guided audio tour wich was fun, everyone is like walking around with headsets on pretty entertaining.
Pretty much just arrived in san francisco and went in the organised limo (the thing was huge) to the Pickwick hotel...when we got there we just fell asleep because we were so tires from the fligh over. I was put next to this really "big" lady whos ass was invading half of my seat, 13 hours of pure discomfort!
Well I leave for San Francisco tomorrow for Apple's World Wide Developer Conference. It should be a blast! Think everything is in order after a screw up somewhere between the Travel Agent and United Airlines, spelt be name incorrect somehow. Enough said, I'm off to finish packing...