WWDC The End
Mon, 2005-06-13 15:22 — jrearick
So, now that I'm getting back into things, I figure I should finish writing about my week in San Francisco.
Wednesday night I met with Ted from the ISU stat department and Rod form AIT at the conference. We went down the road to a mexican restaurant and discussed bits about Tiger in the ISU environment. We exchanged ideas about directory services and what not, and my meal was on Ted (Thanks!). Later that night I found that Colin's universal binary of ATX works well on the Intel machines.
Thursday morning I hit up the integrating OS X in a heterogeneous environment. After lunch I hit up the advanced dashboard widgets section and the end of the session for AppleScript (I must remember to download the session slides for AppleScript, the session was taught in a way that makes sense for C, or C++ type programmers). Immediately after the session I got in line for the busses to Apple campus. I ended up setting next to an Apple employee form Sacramento who works on the Power School application for K-12 education. We talked about data validation, databases, and web servers. Very cool.
At the bash, I ended up loosing the Apple employee I sat with (he might have been able to get me in to see the rest of campus ;)). Campus was a bit smaller than I thought it would be, but still pretty cool. To add one more reason why I need to work for Apple, there is an Outback Steak House right across the street. They didn't let us inside the place very much, just the main lobby and a couple conference rooms for the PlugFest. The food was mediocre, but they had good beer, though not enough of it. By the time I got to the beer tent they were already out of one variety of beer, and I had one of the last glasses of a second variety.
After hanging out in the courtyard for a while, I stood in line for at least 90 minutes to get into the Apple Company Store. By the time I got inside I only had 15 minutes to wait in line until the busses would leave for San Francisco. I only had time to pick up a shirt that says "I've been to the source" and a nice Apple coffee mug.
On the bus ride back and sat next to a person who is working on a really interesting application that utilizes CoreImage and CoreData to be a photo editing application similar to Photoshop, except for the consumer and easier to use, called Lets Grin!. Sounds like an interesting concept, but they had a nice marketing goof when they were planning to promote it at WWDC and have a demo available for download.
Friday was the trip back to Ames. I didn't mention this before, but on our way in at the San Francisco airport the air tram was broken. The air tram takes people from the terminal to the parking and car rental places about a mile or two away from the terminal. We had to take a shuttle bus from the terminal to the rental counter, and once we got our vehicle, the tram started working again. As you can imagine, as soon as we get in and drop off the car, an announcement comes on saying that the air tram was out of service and to take the shuttle busses again. Then, once we were on the plane taking off, we see that the air tram was working again! Arg!. Anyway, Gaila was at the airport to pick us up in Des Moines and we went for Outback steak and I slept in 'til 4pm Saturday.
Now, things are getting back to normal.
Also, if you have been keen the past day or so, I have posted pictures from San Francisco.
Wednesday night I met with Ted from the ISU stat department and Rod form AIT at the conference. We went down the road to a mexican restaurant and discussed bits about Tiger in the ISU environment. We exchanged ideas about directory services and what not, and my meal was on Ted (Thanks!). Later that night I found that Colin's universal binary of ATX works well on the Intel machines.
Thursday morning I hit up the integrating OS X in a heterogeneous environment. After lunch I hit up the advanced dashboard widgets section and the end of the session for AppleScript (I must remember to download the session slides for AppleScript, the session was taught in a way that makes sense for C, or C++ type programmers). Immediately after the session I got in line for the busses to Apple campus. I ended up setting next to an Apple employee form Sacramento who works on the Power School application for K-12 education. We talked about data validation, databases, and web servers. Very cool.
At the bash, I ended up loosing the Apple employee I sat with (he might have been able to get me in to see the rest of campus ;)). Campus was a bit smaller than I thought it would be, but still pretty cool. To add one more reason why I need to work for Apple, there is an Outback Steak House right across the street. They didn't let us inside the place very much, just the main lobby and a couple conference rooms for the PlugFest. The food was mediocre, but they had good beer, though not enough of it. By the time I got to the beer tent they were already out of one variety of beer, and I had one of the last glasses of a second variety.
After hanging out in the courtyard for a while, I stood in line for at least 90 minutes to get into the Apple Company Store. By the time I got inside I only had 15 minutes to wait in line until the busses would leave for San Francisco. I only had time to pick up a shirt that says "I've been to the source" and a nice Apple coffee mug.
On the bus ride back and sat next to a person who is working on a really interesting application that utilizes CoreImage and CoreData to be a photo editing application similar to Photoshop, except for the consumer and easier to use, called Lets Grin!. Sounds like an interesting concept, but they had a nice marketing goof when they were planning to promote it at WWDC and have a demo available for download.
Friday was the trip back to Ames. I didn't mention this before, but on our way in at the San Francisco airport the air tram was broken. The air tram takes people from the terminal to the parking and car rental places about a mile or two away from the terminal. We had to take a shuttle bus from the terminal to the rental counter, and once we got our vehicle, the tram started working again. As you can imagine, as soon as we get in and drop off the car, an announcement comes on saying that the air tram was out of service and to take the shuttle busses again. Then, once we were on the plane taking off, we see that the air tram was working again! Arg!. Anyway, Gaila was at the airport to pick us up in Des Moines and we went for Outback steak and I slept in 'til 4pm Saturday.
Now, things are getting back to normal.
Also, if you have been keen the past day or so, I have posted pictures from San Francisco.
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