Well, so far I haven't seen that much of WWDC, but that
should change today. Yesterday I checked out the Java
on MacOS X seminar, they showed a cool demo of a
Swing applet automagically adopting the MacOS X look
and feel. The other cool thing is that the place is
"wirelessed" for AirPort, so there are people sitting
around with the wireless-enabled PowerBooks and
iBooks checking their mail and doubtless doing real
work. Great idea, particularly given the contention for
terminals in the Internet caf (when they opened the
doors yesterday, it was like a bunch of schoolkids
being let out early...).
Yesterday I met with a fellow Aussie from VA Linux to check
out their campus and meet some people (Jeremy
Allison, sadly, wasn't in). We then drove up to the city,
where Adam had tickets to see The The (but not for
me; and I wasn't going to pay the $90 people were
scalping them for!). Instead, I hooked up with my former
boss from Verve,
Inc (formerly Xedoc). It is an indictment of the
employment situation here when the first thing one of
my friend's colleagues asked upon talking to him on
his cellphone was "so, you had dinner with this guy...
are we hiring him?".
Stayed in the city, caught the Caltrain up this
morning. A few interesting, technical sessions on
MacOS X today, plus the Darwin BOF, plus dinner with
HP LDAP folk.