WWDC08 is over
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June 14, 2008

Apple WWDC08 is over :-(

I'm still in San Francisco, leaving on Sunday.

It was an incredibly exciting week, thanks to the sessions and labs content, Apple perfect organization and the especially nice and clever people I met and spent the week with.

For the record, here is what the planning was.

Friends of mine have already checked the photo galleries. For the ones who haven't, ask for the URLs.

Saturday, June 7

  • Geneva-Amsterdam-San Francisco
  • checkin at Bay Bridge Inn
  • burger at Mels Dinner

Sunday, June 8

  • checkin at the WWDC
  • trip to Cupertino and Stanford University Campus
  • burger at In-and-Out
  • SFMacIndie party

Monday, June 9

  • Steve Jobs Keynote
  • 300 Mac OS X State of the Union
  • 900 Developer Tools State of the Union
  • Students talk
  • WWDC Welcome Reception
  • French developers party, The Chieftain pub

Tuesday, June 10

  • 312 iPhone Application Development Fundamentals
  • 328 Networking with Bonjour
  • 340 Creating Secure Applications for iPhone and Mac OS X
  • 907 New Compiler Technology and Future Directions
  • 911 Advanced Performance Profiling Techniques with Shark
  • CocoaHeads at Apple Store
  • burger at Cheesecake Factory, Union Square

Wednesday, June 11

  • 711 2D Graphics & Animation for iPhone and Mac
  • 362 Controls, Views, and Animation on iPhone
  • lunch time session: Small Teams, Complex Pipelines: Writing Software at Pixar
  • 716 Core Animation Techniques for iPhone and Mac
  • 381 Core Data Tips and Tricks
  • 525 Cocoa Development Using Scripting
  • Apple Design Awards
  • Stump the Experts

Thursday, June 12

  • 392 Cocoa Tips and Tricks: Using Leopard Features Effectively
  • 534 Spotlight: Search and Be Searched
  • 412 Cocoa Performance Techniques
  • 419 Polishing Your Cocoa Application
  • 5048 Spotlight Lab
  • 9028 Core Data Lab
  • WWDC Beer Bash in Yerba Buena gardens

Friday, June 13

  • 935 Advanced Performance Analysis with Instruments & DTrace
  • 446 How Do I Do That? Tips and Tricks for iPhone Application...
  • lunch time session: iPhone Application Development from the .NET Perspective
  • 940 Mastering Advanced Objective-C Features
  • trip to the Golden Gate Bridge
  • dinner in Haight-Ashbury

Saturday, June 14

  • pancakes at Mels Dinner for breakfast
  • MOMA
  • walking on Ocean Beach
  • walk in Union Square, Powell, Chinatown areas
  • last burger at Mels Dinner

Sunday, June 15

  • San Francisco-Amsterdam-Geneva