It’s been a really good WWDC so far. A lot of great new, iterative work by Apple on OS X’s features. The big hit judging by the lines to get into the sessions is XCode 3.0, the new Interface Builder, Objective C 2.0, and Core Animation.
Speaking of the crowds, I’m pretty shocked at the lines. There are a TON of people here, to the point that rooms are closed as full, not allowing any more people in (probably a fire marshal thing).
Initially during the keynote I said to a coworker “I’ll be upgrading to Leopard just for Time Machine”. After seeing sessions on Core Animation and the Cocoa support for it (all of which I can’t write on) I think Leopard will be most popular because of applications that use Core Animation. There’s enough there to take a chance on writing a Leopard only app.
Last night before the ADC Awards, I headed over to the Metreon to pick up something a bit more healthy than pizza, and I happened upon Brent Simmons eating dinner.. stepping out of my somewhat shy zone, I said hi and introduced myself again, and he graciously invited me to sit with him for dinner.. it was good, but I was nervous – maybe because I’m a user of his software, and I know what it’s like when when users come up and start requesting things.. and he’s a celebrity in a sense.. or at least it feels like it to me.
Tonight I went to a dinner with some of the Portland CocoaHead folks – it was fun, and we’re hoping to restart the group in a few months.
Tomorrow, more sessions, and then the campus bash. Oh, and I have a wicked sore throat.. fun fun!
