Today I went with Sridhar and Kapilan for the Singapore iPhone Tech Talks. I think it is very nice of Apple to bring these developer conferences to more countries. I registered online already using my Developer Connection account.
The reception people were super fantastic, they were really really nice. Black T-Shirt and jeans with a black table cloth of course..... I came in like biege pants and an orange T-Shirt, looking like the 1 to 1 shopping person at the apple store.....
The first of two standout scenes was the UI Kit session. There was this presentation, and the slides were filled with size 12 code, highlighted in at least 7 different colors. The speaker ran through it quickly. Did an impossibly fast demo. I was befuddled. And he kept saying that "Its very simple."
The second one was when the system security stopped XCode from compiling an App and running it. The speaker needed an assistant to come on stage where they tried 4 different passwords. The App ran. The security window appeared again. They typed in a password. It didn't work. Worked on the second try.
There were like tea and lunch in between the sessions, and the food was nice. Its really nice of Apple to host this. Did I mention free? It shows they are concerned about the customer experience.
Anyway Winfred appeared halfway through. I duno why Sridhar asked him to come. Winfred was swearing like every 5 min, even during the sessions, and was told by a delegate to be quiet. So embarrassing.
Oh yeah, and we were the only kids there, with the exception of one more guy. So the reception people were even nicer to us, and were very concerned throughout the DevCon, like directing us to more seats and other stuff.
The sessions were really exciting with a few exceptions. I think that this sort of thing really requires you to think through. Its quite complicated, but interesting. With the exception of the Web App Development session. Boring. Terrible. Javascript. The Horror Of It All. Left Halfway through for the Interface Builder session.
I think the whole Developer Conference was really cool. I'm happy with life. :P
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