WWDC Loose Ends
A couple of other thoughts I want to share as the WWDC closes down:
Well, the WWDC is almost over. Actually, for me, it ended yesterday afternoon. I skipped all of the sessions today in favor of staying up very late last night doing real work. I checked out of my hotel at noon and took a taxi to the airport and am now shacking up in the Red Carpet Club again, waiting for my flight at 6:30pm.
My posting velocity on both CharlesSieg.com and via Twitter is decreasing a bit. There are a couple of reasons for that. One is that most of the stuff we hear during the daily sessions is covered by NDA and, while some people feel free to disregard that, I'm all about not biting the hand that feeds me. So no sneaky posts from me. Private conversations with me, however, is another story. Second, there is quite simply a lot of work to be done and work takes priority over blogging. I'm at the conference all day and then I put in at least another 8 hours in front of the computer at night working on my code and trying out some of the techniques picked up during the day. Last night, for instance, I went to bed at around 5am Pacific time... Today I am taking a lighter day, getting back in sync with Illinois time and, hence, the break for a little blogging.
They announced in the keynote that the iPhone SDK had been downloaded over 200,000 times. Of those, about 25,000 people applied to the paid iPhone Developer Program. Of those, they have accepted only 4,000 applications. One of those was mine. I'm feeling pretty good about that right now.
I made a bunch of predictions yesterday about what would be announced today at the WWDC keynote. Here are the ones I got right:
Well, today was a very good day. So far, the WWDC has not disappointed. I posted just about everything on my Twitter feed, in real-time, and, to my utter surprise, Twitter did not blow up under the stress (including the thousands of others doing the same).
I came to San Francisco shirtless. Well, almost. I did have my excellent Daring Fireball t-shirt that says "Your PC is a POS" and which garnered me numerous compliments at today's WWDC sessions. I like to make an impression. LOL And this week, I wanted to express my full geekness. I was reading a fellow Mac coders blog and he mentioned some t-shirts that he had made up and was selling in Zazzle.
Well, the big day is finally upon us. Tomorrow Steve Jobs will most likely announce the iPhone 2.0 with 3G networking and some other neat upgrades. I am in San Francisco for the epic event and will be sporting an excellent black Daring Fireball T-shirt that says "Your PC is a POS".
Well, the flight was pretty decent. They showed the movie Fool's Gold, which I did not watch - because I was working - but which looked very intriguing and thus, will be picked up for future viewing.
Here's the link to the various meetups that are happening throughout the week. Pretty sure I'm gonna skip out on Tuesday night's WWDC Drinking Contest.
I will be doing a lot of micro-posting this week on Twitter. My personal blog at ForkBender.com and this blog at CharlesSieg.com will be sharing this unedited feed. The URL is http://twitter.com/ForkBender.
The ultimate luxury for a modern day business traveller is peace of mind. I am on the way to the 2008 WWDC in San Francisco. I had a 3:05pm flight out of O'Hare until a wicked thunderstorm blew through the Midwest. Now that has become a 4:30pm flight. No big deal for me; other than that, the whole airport experience has been quite pleasant. I got checked in, checked in my one bag (first bag still free with United!), and breezed through security with zero wait, and casually strolled over to C15 for my flight. That is where a found a few surprises.