WWDC 2005 Recap
WWDC was great. It was my first time attending and will probably not be my last. At first it was a bit intimidating, especially with the huge crowds waiting to get into the Keynote. But after a while, I really felt... at home. Like these were my people. How many places does every other person have a PowerBook? Where can you wander the halls and chat with any random person about Macs?
There was a lot of good content too. I couldn't attend all the ones I wanted to go to, but hopefully the DVDs will come out soon and I can watch all the ones I missed. Like David, a fellow Mac developer from the DC area said "I felt like a kid in the candy store" when I looked at the conference schedule. But as good as the content was, meeting the people there was even better.
It felt kind of like a reunion of sorts. I met all these folks whom I had some contact with from all these different contexts, mostly Mac-related. It was great to go to the MacSB and Blogger Dinner on Monday. Thanks Mike and Buzz for setting those up! I only wish there were more small group meetings like that at conferences. I managed to find several East Coast developers at WWDC and at the airport. I also met a bunch of Apple folks including Andrew (thanks for the new Subversion on Tiger post) and bbum.