Re: WWDC 2005 - Is the value worth the price? (OT)
Re: WWDC 2005 - Is the value worth the price? (OT)
- Subject: Re: WWDC 2005 - Is the value worth the price? (OT)
- From: Matthew Formica <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 16:38:28 -0700
Nate,
I'd like to add to this that this year at WWDC we are having an even more
hands-on focus than we have had in past years. We are gearing it very much
towards "bring your app and get work done" over the course of the week.
So, a pitch you might make towards management is to point out a few features
they've been asking you to add to your product and then explain how much
faster you'll be able to implement those features with Apple engineering
giving tips, suggestions, and code snippets on whiteboards through the week.
Plus, we've got new hands-on sessions this year that will really help you
understand some of the new Tiger technologies by doing, right in the context
of the sessions themselves.
We're quite excited about the conference this year, and hopefully these
enhancements will help you convince your management to let you go.
Let me know if you have any other questions (and anyone else, let me know if
you plan on attending and what you want to see),
--
Matthew Formica
Cocoa & Dev Tools Technology Evangelist
Apple Worldwide Developer Relations
email@hidden
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Spotlight on Innovation
Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2005
June 6-10, San Francisco, CA
http://developer.apple.com/wwdc
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On 4/5/05 3:33 PM, "Jim Rankin" <email@hidden> wrote:
> The single coolest thing I got out of WWDC last year was a one-on-one
> session with an Apple interface design specialist . He spent a half
> hour session with me and totally took apart my interface design and
> put it back together again. That was arguably worth the price of
> admission by itself.
>
> The bottom line is, you can probably get any question you want
> answered at WWDC. You can ask a question at a mike at the end of a
> session, you can sign up for one on one time with experts in any
> aspect of Mac development, you can grab some one in the hall between
> sessions. Random strangers probably can teach you things you never
> considered, too.
>
> So if you want to convince your employers to send you, I think you
> need to tell them "Here's a list of questions that, if I could get
> answers to, it would impact our bottom line thusly..."
>
> As for networking, it seemed to me the entire mac developer community
> was there. If you pick a frequent poster to this list at random,
> there's a better than even chance he'll be there. If you attend, you
> should have a quite comprehensive idea of who's doing what in mac
> development by the time you leave.
>
> Good luck!
> -jimbo
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