Comments on: Boston Leopard Tech Talk

By: Allan Schaffer

Allan Schaffer — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:22:13 +0000

Hi all,
Glad you enjoyed the tech talks and hope you were able to get a lot of useful content out of them. And as you guessed, much of our purpose in doing these events is to bring developers up to speed on Leopard features & to help so you all can write apps that will really make the most of what’s coming in Leopard.
Our team just did the Atlanta tech talk today and it was another really good event. Meanwhile it sounds like the Milan event went well today also.
Next week there’s stops in Munich, Hamburg, and Stockholm. Wish I was able to go for those. :-) But I’ll be there for Sydney in Feb, looking forward to meeting graphics developers “down undah”..!
- Allan, Graphics Evangelist @ Apple

By: l0ne

l0ne — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:39:23 +0000

Just got back from WWDC Milan. Had lots of fun, and saw Leopard in action for free (!) and got to look at all that NDA’d goodness that I can’t talk about here :p suffice to say I’m positively impressed with the under-the-hood new machinery (especially Core Animation). The speakers were nice and spoke clearly (which for a non-native speaker can really be the difference between a great experience and 10 hours wasted sitting on a chair).

Only bad thing: no details on code injection (mach_inject) issues which my users are reporting (Leopard is even stricter than x86 Tiger in that respect). Probably not yet finalized; I can’t wait to get my hands on the finished product :p

By: David Hoerl

David Hoerl — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:50:18 +0000

I was at the NYC meeting, even though I was at last year’s WWDC. It was worth the day to hear topics again, and this time they sunk in a bit more. Deric Horn did a great job on the two presentations of his I saw (very knowledgeable, very passionate!)

I was happy to actually spent about 30 minutes with John Geleynse – an Apple Evangelist and GUI expert. Anyone attending WWDC knows John is normally surrounded by a huge crowd of people trying to get a slice of time, so this was an unheard of opportunity!

I too had to get up at 5 something AM to get into NYC by 8AM – what a long day – but it was well worth it and I’d do it again in a heartbeat.

My personal belief is that Apple is spending the time and effort on forge a union with the developers to get the user base to move up to Leopard by any means necessary (carrot, stick, or both). When developers enhance apps for out of date OSs, they often hinder their use of new features and in essence create reasons for the user base to stay on the old release. That said, I understand the realities of the world only too well.

In the future, anyone who has an opportunity to get a free one-day mini WWDC should grab it as quickly and tightly as possible!

By: Daniel Jalkut

Daniel Jalkut — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:03:50 +0000

Jacob – it’s a shame you couldn’t make it. Actually it seems like many people were under the impression that there wasn’t public transit, but the Franklin commuter train apparently stops about 7 minutes walk from the hotel.

By: Jacob Rus

Jacob Rus — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:00:18 +0000

I had signed up to go, but then didn’t really plan much ahead, what with being out of town on vacation, then for macworld, etc. I realized the day before the event that the hotel where they held it is miles from the nearest bus stop, and the only way I’d have been able to get there was by $60 taxi ride. Oh well. :(

By: l0ne

l0ne — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:10:27 +0000

Stay tuned: Milan Tech Talk coming tomorrow, I’ll report (what I can, of course: NDAs will be respected :D).

By: Kell Brown

Kell Brown — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:27:22 +0000

I went to the one in Toronto. It was packed. Some good information about Leopard and some nice demos. Just from the point of seeing where they are with Leopard it was good. Since I don’t have a copy of Leopard it was nice to try out some of the features I’ve been waiting for especially core animation, time machine and spaces.

Snacks were good and plentiful. Advice and technical assistance to developer was similar but there was absolutely no swag. No even a t-shirt or a stress ball and definitely no Leopard Headstart kit.

By: orta

orta — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:37:01 +0000

The UK Leopard Tech Talk had about 15 people, it went alright but I didn’t feel like I learnt too much. It was also rushed due to traffic.

By: Bob Peterson

Bob Peterson — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:29:45 +0000

Sal managed to convince me to support AppleScript and Automator, if not actually use them yet. The NDA prevents me from saying more here, but I will file a Radar report as I now know they are serious about them.

By: Deric Horn

Deric Horn — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:10:53 +0000

It’s great to see so many developers excited about Leopard, and see the whole developer community really getting closer, getting a chance to meet one another, and growing.

It was great catching up with you again.
- the guy who did Cocoa side of the Core Animation presentation (-;