Theocacao: One Week to WWDC 2007

One Week to WWDC 2007

With seven days and some twentish hours to go, WWDC 2007 is imminent. Let's take a quick look at what has happened recently and where things stand now.

Get Ready

If you already have a WWDC ticket, you can login to the attendee site and setup your schedule for the week using the "My Agenda" online app. Once you create your schedule, you can subscribe to it using iCal, which is updated as you add and remove sessions.

To take full advantage of the conference sessions and on-site interaction with Apple engineers, it's in your best interest to check out the Coding Headstarts on the ADC site. A more complete description is available here, but essentially these are each lesson-in-a-box, with source code, a project guide, and a video introduction from an Apple engineer. There are a total of nineteen Headstarts now:

Automation

Carbon and Cocoa Integration

Coding Smarter with Objective-C 2.0

Core Animation

Core Data Fetching

Creating a PDF Viewer with PDF Kit

Enabling the OpenGL Multithreaded Engine

Enhancing a Widget with Dashcode

Fundamentals of Kernel Debugging

Getting Started with Calendar Store

Getting Started with Cocoa Bindings

Getting Started with QTKit Capture

Introduction to Scripting Bridge

Make a Photo Viewer Using Image Kit

Performance Tuning Quartz2D

Polishing a Quick Look Plug-in

Resolution Independence

Try Out Your Shaders with GLSLshowpiece

iChat Theater

Once you've looked through these, you'll be better prepared to go into presentation sessions and will likely be better equipped to ask questions in the labs.

Finally, I suggest you keep Wednesday night (June 13) free, particularly between 7pm and 9pm. We're going to have a little get together at the Apple Store in San Francisco. More details on that shortly, but I think you'll want to check it out.

One Week to WWDC 2007
Posted Jun 3, 2007 — 23 comments below

Ljuba — Jun 03, 07 4195

This is my first WWDC and I've heard that attendees are sent a DVD of all the presentation sessions afterwards. I haven't been able to find anything specific about this on the ADC website, but if it's true, that would significantly alter my session-choose process. Does anyone have in info on this?

Peter Hosey — Jun 03, 07 4196

There are two Apple Stores in San Francisco. Which one do you mean?

Ian Robinson — Jun 03, 07 4197

WWDC attendees don't get a DVD anymore. The sessions are made available online via ADC on iTunes. You can download them much like other video podcasts.

Justin Prine — Jun 03, 07 4198

This will be my first WWDC as well. The anticipation is killing me. See you all there!

Scott Stevenson — Jun 03, 07 4199

There are two Apple Stores in San Francisco. Which one do you mean?

The one a few blocks from Moscone on Stockton Street.

Jon H — Jun 03, 07 4201

"Finally, I suggest you keep Wednesday night (June 13) free, particularly between 7pm and 9pm. We're going to have a little get together at the Apple Store in San Francisco"

If they'll let you, you should try to set up video iChat connections with other stores, for the people who couldn't attend.

Doug — Jun 03, 07 4202

I'm not attending, as I've just begun Obj-C/Cocoa a month or so ago, but I'm definitely waiting for any possible new Mac Pro announcements with credit card fully primed.

Scott Stevenson — Jun 03, 07 4203

I'm not attending, as I've just begun Obj-C/Cocoa a month or so ago
Personally, I think that's a great time to go. I think I was at a similar point the first time I went. Things made a lot more sense after looking at code all week.

Juan Leon — Jun 03, 07 4204

This will be my first WWDC as well and I am really looking forward to it... filling out my Agenda now!

Jose Vazquez — Jun 03, 07 4205

Arghh! So few days! So many things to do! Wednesday night is the Big Nerd Ranch get together... I really want to be at two places at the same time... I guess I better get used to it, there are many sessions where I would love to be at two at the same time.

BTW does anyone know how the labs work? Do they have a program or something or do you just show up with questions? So could you go to a session, miss the first half hour of a lab and show up for the rest (or something like that)?

Scott Stevenson — Jun 04, 07 4206

Do they have a program or something or do you just show up with questions?
You just show up.

So could you go to a session, miss the first half hour of a lab and show up for the rest (or something like that)?
Yes. A "Cocoa Bindings lab" basically means that Apple engineers that specialize in and/or work on Cocoa Bindings tend to be in that room at that time. Obviously, the same is true for any other lab on another topic.

Samo — Jun 04, 07 4208

I only have the select membership and it's a bit sad that I don't get access to all the WWDC videos. I'd especially like to see the user interface stuff. Heck, I'd be glad to order a WWDC DVD pack if there was a chance to do so (I can't really put a lot of the videos on my MacBook's 120 GB hard drive..).

Ah well, maybe next year ...

Oskar Lissheim-Boethius — Jun 04, 07 4210

First WWDC for me too. Very excited about the new RubyCocoa stuff and the possibility of iPhone-related development. Looking forward to the Wednesday event as well. Intriguing...

Currently making a GTD-implementation in Rails and Cocoa/RubyCocoa, mostly to scratch my own itch of task management. I'd _love_ to have a deeper integration with the iPhone than just a (albeit AJAX:y) website.

(Coming all the way from Sweden myself. Any other Europeans lurking here who's going?)

alastair — Jun 04, 07 4211

Any other Europeans lurking here who's going?

Yep. I'm from the U.K.

It'll be my second WWDC (I was there in 2005), but I'm very much looking forward to it. I'm particularly looking forward to seeing what they've done in the WWDC Leopard seed, since, if past experience is anything to go by, it's likely to have loads of things we haven't seen before (even those of us with access to the Leopard seeds on ADC). Doubly so because Apple said they weren't showing everything yet at the previous 2006 WWDC.

And yes, it will be interesting to see whether anyone gets to write iPhone apps. I can think of a few very useful ones that it'd be great to have on the thing. Mind-you, one or two of them might have to wait for a 2nd generation iPhone, depending on exactly what hardware is in the final shipping product.

Ljuba — Jun 04, 07 4212

Does that mean that all WWDC attendees get access the WWDC '07 videos via ADC on iTunes, or just the Premier and Select Members? I've purchased the WWDC ticket, but my ADC membership is just the basic free one.

Ljuba — Jun 04, 07 4213

For all those WWDC newbies out there like me: I called ADC and they told me that last year, all attendees (regardless of their ADC membership) received access to all sessions on ADC on iTunes. Apparently, Apple hasn't made any announcements of this kind this year, but figures it should work the same way. That means you can go check out that really cool core animation or OpenGL session without worrying too much about missing out on that cocoa bindings one you should have gone to.

Pete Callaway — Jun 04, 07 4214

Another WWDC virgin here and another making the pilgrimage from the UK. Of course it goes without saying that I'm really looking forward to it.

Is there a way to adjust (or ignore) the time-zone of the Agenda feed? All the events appear in my calendar in SF time but I'd rather they ignored the time-zone difference so it makes sense when I print it out.

Cheers,
Pete

Ljuba — Jun 04, 07 4215

Pete,

In iCal Preferences, under Advanced, activate "Turn on Time Zone Support." Back in the iCal main window, you'll get a menu in the top-right corner of the app. Switch to "US/Pacific." This will adjust all your other calendar items, but at least you can print out your agenda in the proper time zone.

Cheers.

Ian Robinson — Jun 04, 07 4216

Any other Europeans lurking here who's going?

I'll be there. Coming from Belfast in the UK and this'll be my 2nd WWDC. I was there last year.

What do people think of the beer bash being in Yerba Buena Gardens in SF (which is a great spot BTW) rather than at the Apple Campus in Cupertino?

Michael Strck — Jun 06, 07 4234

Any other Europeans lurking here who's going?

I'll be there. I'm from Vienna, Austria.

Juan Leon — Jun 08, 07 4248

Hi Guys,
As stated above, this is my first WWDC and I have two questions for you all: Are you guys all installing the latest Leopard Beta and XCode 3.0 on your laptops? I foolishly put it on a full sized external hdd and do not have time to re-partition/re-install everything on my MacBook. I know at least one of the headstarts mentioned using IB 3's features...
The last question, what time do folks usually get in line for the keynote to be likely to grab a seat in the main auditorium?

Scott Stevenson — Jun 09, 07 4259

Are you guys all installing the latest Leopard Beta and XCode 3.0 on your laptops? (...) I know at least one of the headstarts mentioned using IB 3's features

You should absolutely try to find a way to install the Leopard beta on your laptop. That's pretty much the whole point of the conference: to learn about the newest version of Leopard and get your questions about it answered.

Lon Varscsak — Jun 11, 07 4296

What do people think of the beer bash being in Yerba Buena Gardens in SF (which is a great spot BTW) rather than at the Apple Campus in Cupertino?

Personally, I'm disappointed about that decision. Going to the Apple Campus is always a great highlight.

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