Thoughts about WWDC – Sunday 5th

Woke up bright and early and headed off to the Student Sunday session. It was at the Argent hotel this year, a change from past years when it was held in the Moscone centre.

Got there around 8am, and got into the breakfast. I had a croisant thing with strawberry jam, wasnt too bad. Also had a few glasses of orange juice.

Around 9am we were all ushered into one of the room where they welcomed us and told us about the day.

Previously we had chosen a ‘track’ that we wanted to attend. Track 1 was aimed at people who hadnt done much Cocoa programming at all, track 2 was for people who had done some and wanted more. I picked track 2 and went along to it.

It was presented by Aaron Hillegass from BigNerdRanch.com, the guy that wrote the cocoa programming books. It was actually a really good session. He presents really well and explains things great.

After the first part we broke for lunch. I was amazed at the food they had. Salads, meats, sauces, and desserts it was awesome and tasted really good. I grabbed a coke as well and it was ok even though it doesnt tatse wuite as good as Australia

After lunch we went baack into our groups and were given a programming task to complete. Thomas, Luke and I played around with it and did some experimenting. In the end our example didnt work, but thats cool we had some fun and i think we were more productive then other people who just followed the examples.

Next we were given a talk by a guy from Delicious Monster who told us about mac programming, working for ourselves and making lots of money. Was entertaining and enjoyable.

We left the final student day session and headed to the AUC gathering at the Thirsty Bear. I actually tried 2 of the beers, the first was crap but the second was ok. We got to chat with a few other students and also 2 aussie guys that work at Apple. Was pretty cool and i enjoyed myself.

When i got back i got a call from Melanie Aunty Doris She managed to track me down I was planning on getting a phone call later in the week and giving her a call but she beat me to it.

So thats about it for today. Im sitting at the moment in the hotel typing out stuff and chatting on MSN. Tomorrow whould be really good, i really enjoy the keynotes and this one should be just as good if not better then previous ones.