Last morning at WWDC
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 9:48AM It's the final morning here at WWDC and time to reflect on the overall experience of the week. Although I've been tweeting, I've not really been able to blog much about WWDC as all attendees are under NDA and except for the keynote on Monday, everything else is "secret". Except it's not really, my take is that the NDA arrangements are purely to keep the value of the ticket price and encourage more people to attend.
So what are my positives and negatives to take away from WWDC and was it worth the expense as a "non-developer"?
I've attended a number of sessions but haven't tried to religiously attend every single one. The sessions are available after the event as videos so any I miss, I can catch up later. The ones I have attended have generally been highly technical but in each one, there has always been a nugget of information or an increase in my appreciation of the topic.
Networking is always valuable at these events and the WWDC crowd is a different crowd from Macworld. It's been good to meet with various developers, both previous and potentially future ScreenCastsOnline participants, and it could be said that the price of the ticket was worth it for that.
The conference organization has been pretty good, dispute the early problems with the wifi, but I have to say, the conference food has been pretty dire! Plenty of it, but yuk!
The iPad has proved to be the perfect conference computer. Light, portable, amazing battery life, just fantastic.
Slightly different for me this time away, was an experiment to see just how easy it was to create and publish a show away from home. Despite the obvious impact of making sure the time was available, it wasn't too bad at all. I need to sort out a decent audio setup though, but editing and encoding wasn't problematic at all. The ridiculously fast wired Internet made uploading a breeze.
I'll have to break off now to grab some coffee and queue for the last sessions. Will post some more WWDC thoughts later.
Reader Comments (3)
The screencast on safari 5 and iPad file transfer in HD was just fine. The sound was so good I would not carry extra kit if you do an away day again.
Many thanks for the tweets during the keynote. They came through before any of the others. I was away at the time and used iPhone to follow the progress.
Sorry to hear the food wasn't up to scratch. I heard this complaint at 2008 when the food was great. When I probed the complainers it seemed like they were used to more traditional or maybe even fried food for lunch. I think there should be a choice of 3 mains including a vegan option, but it clearly fails to please everyone :(
Having said that I heard about one supplier getting locked out of the inventory due to strange rules by the caterer. Is it an in house moscone one or an outside supplier?
I would have to agree with the previous comment in that if you hadn't mentioned anything about the audio on the Safari 5 / iPad screencast, then I wouldn't have known any different. Sounded fine to me.
Thanks for the tweets, oh and the tip about Osfoora on MacBreak was cool - it has replaced Twiterrific on my iPhone and I'll probably get the HD version when I get my iPad (having given the iPad I bought on launch day to my other half in a fit of generosity!).
Regards, macbitz.