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WWDC 08 — Day 0

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I have made my way over to Moscone West, the site of the big event.  My enthusiasm is rivaled only by the size of the apple on the side of the convention center.

I went in and registered.

 

The guy said that we’ve been telling people to line up at 5am.  I said for what?  He said the Keynote.  I said what?  He’s like ‘people are already lining up now’.  Apparently, it’s first come, first seating and a lot of people don’t want to be in the overflow rooms or miss it at all.  Perhaps it’s a bonus of my crappy hotel and the eastern time zone that I will get up crazy early and join in the festivities.

Also got this cool T-shirt and a black computer bag.  Bag is nice, but it’s no Tumi.


 

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I have arrived in San Francisco

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Flight time took longer than normal.  My guess is that they were trying to save gas by flying slowly.  After all, if a flight is supposed to take 5 and 1/2 hours, what’s the big deal if it takes another hour, right?  Anyway, after waiting for my luggage, I took an overpriced cab ride to the hotel.

The Touchstone hotel.  Let’s just say that you get what you pay for.  In this case, you get a lot less.  I’m not sure where they got the pictures that I saw on the previous web page, but (to quote Michael Douglas from Falling Down), this place is nothing like the picture.  I’ve attached shots of the Bed, the Bathroom and The View.

Let’s just say that the view makes me think a crime is going to happen at any time.

I didn’t include a shot of the TV because other TVs would be embarrassed by association.  I’m hoping that the trip will work out better than my initial impression.

I took some shots around there and it seems like there is good shopping to be had.

Developer, iPhone, Wine Tool

WWDC coming soon

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I’m heading out to San Francisco this Sunday(June 9) to attend Apple’s World Wide Developer Conference 2008. Basically, I’m pretty pumped as I haven’t been to a tech conference for a long time. Back to the days of Java One (when venture capital money was flowing like water).

I plan to post at least a daily summary of the activities.

What do I hope to accomplish?

  • learn more about general programming for mac and iPhone (I already know objc so not too much to learn there)
  • tune my new iPhone app WineTool (or WineKnows if you ask the girlfriend) — I’m hoping that Apple engineers and design specialists will offer some insights into giving the app a lot of ‘pop’.
  • meet other objc iPhone geeks