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Attending WWDC gave me enough positive energy to start working harder on my current Cocoa project (Professional Crossword Designer), which allows to create all kind of different word puzzles. I have published current pictures of the application that show its current state. You can see them here.
I have just updated to my .Mac account some pictures that I took during WWDC two weeks ago. Enjoy! You can see them here.
Tonight Apple invited all the WWDC attendees to their headquarters in Cupertino. We had dinner in the central garden while listening to electronic music played by a quite decent DJ. During the event, many Apple engineers were available to answer any questions we may still have. The truth is that the answers I got from […]
As I wrote in a previous post, every time Apple updates its OS, it includes two kind of changes. A new OS (with new low level functionality which is mainly interesting for developers) and new utilities for the general Macintosh users. Inevitably it seems that for each new OS release there is some controversy around […]
It turns out that there is a new exciting API in Leopard that we can talk about without infringing the NDA. It is called the Core Text API and as its name implies is used to display text. From what I saw at todays session, adding support for multiple columns in any text editor or […]
Yesterday I attended a session on Core Animation. You would not believe what you can do with this new API. The demos were just amazing and wooed the audience. Most importantly for the developers, the API seems really simple to use, which means that soon after Leopard is released you should start to see many […]
Today’s sessions are over. I spent most of the day learning about technologies that are not really new, such as Core Data but that should help me with my current projects. As I was learning more about the value of current and future Cocoa APIs I couldn’t help thinking if Apple was moving in the […]
I cannot talk about the contents of these sessions as they are confidential. I can only say that the contents were very informative and everyone seemed pleased. My strongest fear was that most improvements to Leopard were only skin deep but fortunately it doesn’t seem to be so. What is clear to me though is […]
Well, I finally know what it feels to attend a Steves Jobs keynote. I think that we all enjoyed seeing him throw poisoned attacks at Microsoft. However, Apple seems a little defensive by not disclosing the full feature set of Leopard. Such caution seems understandable. It is probably better to keep some secrets until Vista […]
After waiting in line for over an hour, i finally made it into Mocone West. One hour later we were allowed to the second floor. Now everyone is sitting on the ground, playing with their macs, browsing the internet and discussing rumors while waiting for the keynote.