WWDC, Here I come!


I registered for WWDC today, and I'm already looking forward to it!

Today was the last day to register for WWDC at the reduced rate. I suppose you could call it procrastination, but I like to think of it as sound money management. After all, why would I register weeks ago, when all I achieve is the loss of a few weeks interest on my $1,300?

At any rate, I did drop a chunk of change today to get a e-ticket to WWDC 2006. Obviously, I'm looking forward to getting a sneak peak at Leopard, but there's a bunch of stuff I'm interested in from an educational perspective as well. Syncopation makes pretty good use of Cocoa bindings, but I'm not doing Core Data. I've been doing my own reading/experimenting on the side with Core Data, but I'm hoping to attend a bunch of sessions on the topic.

One of the other things I'm keen to get a bit more exposure on is WebObjects. I've got a significant amount of background with J2EE, but not too much with WO aside for a few of the tutorials in the Apple documentation. From what I've seen it looks pretty sweet, and as my requirements for my website grow, I'm hoping to use WO. I have to say, though, I have a nagging feeling that Apple is not very together when it comes to their story on the future of WO. The whole story about deployment on 5.3 was pretty disjoint. I'm hoping that Apple will be very clear about their intentions with this very cool platform at WWDC.

Most of all, I'm just looking forward to rubbing elbows with other Mac developers. Plus a trip to San Francisco! Can't wait!

A couple of other thoughts... I've pretty much called it a wrap on Syncopation 1.0.1. I'm planning on doing some more testing over the weekend. It should be available early next week.

Lastly, kudos to the folks at Panic. In the past few weeks as I've been deploying files and content to my web site, I've really come to appreciate how slick Transmit is. It's truly an invaluable tool! I do think they do it a disservice by calling it an "FTP" client. I'm pretty wary about the (in-)security of FTP. Truth be told, I won't use FTP. It's SFTP for me, thanks. But Transmit is a pro when it comes to SFTP. Thanks guys!

Posted: Fri - June 23, 2006 at 11:30 PM          

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